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Hab. — Queensland : Cairns district (A. M. Lea). Type^ 

 I. 1479. 



The elytral attenuation commences nearer to the base than 

 in other species of the genus. Parts of the elytra appear to 

 be obscurely diluted with red, especially where the scales are 

 paler than elsewhere. The type (whose sex is doubtful) is 

 unique, but its shape should be distinctive. The clothing may 

 not be constant ; on each elytron there appears to be a vague 

 triangle of sooty-brown scales extending from the side (from 

 near the base to beyond the middle) to the third interstice 

 slightly beyond the middle, behind this triangle the scales 

 are paler than elsewhere, so that a wide sutural space on the 

 posterior declivity is clothed with scales that appear almost 

 white to the naked eye. 



SOPHRONOCIS, n. g. 



Head rather large. Eyes moderately large, coarsely- 

 faceted. Rostrum short, wide, and almost straight. Antennae 

 moderately stout, inserted about middle of rostrum; scape 

 distinctly shorter than funicle; two basal joints of funicle 

 elongate, the others very short; club ovate. Prothorax trans- 

 verse, sides rounded, apex lightly produced, base strongly 

 bisinuate. Scutellum distinct. Elytra elongate-cordate, base 

 distinctly wider than prothorax. Pectoral canal deep and 

 wide, terminated just behind front coxae. Mesosternal 

 receptacle rather strongly raised, emargination semicircular; 

 cavernous. Metasternum about the length of the following 

 segment; episterna distinct. Abdomen with first segment as 

 long as second and third combined, its apex lightly incurved 

 to middle, second as long as third and fourth combined. Legs 

 rather long and thin ; femora neither grooved nor dentate, 

 hind pair not extending to apex of abdomen; tibiae lightly 

 compressed. 



Close to Tyrtceosiis, but suture between first and second 

 segments of abdomen not quite straight, and the femora 

 edentate. In the table of genera allied to Cri/ptorhynchus (6) 

 would be associated with Scleropoides, from which it differs in 

 the much shorter rostrum and scape, and non-grooved femora. 



SoPHRONOCIS ALBONOTATUS, n. Sp. 



Black, in places feebly diluted w4th red ; antennae and 

 tarsi red. Moderately clothed with black suberect scales, 

 variegated with small spots of whitish ones. 



Head with dense punctures, of moderate size between 

 eyes, smaller elsewhere; ocular fovea fairly large. Rostrum 



(6) Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales 1907, pp. 401-403. 



