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Head with very large punctures, partially concealed to- 

 wards base. Rostrum stout, slightly dilated in front of 

 antennae, parallel-sided behind same : with four rows of very 

 large punctures, becoming smaller and irregular in front. 

 Scape moderately stout, inserted two-fifths from apex of 

 rostrum, shorter than funicle. Prothorax moderately trans- 

 verse, sides strongly rounded, base truncate and more than 

 "twice the width of apex, with very large, deep punctures, 

 ■crowded together; with a somew^hat sinuous median carina. 

 Elytra not much wider than prothorax, shoulders very 

 feebly produced, sides rounded, posterior declivity strongly 

 rounded ; with rows of very large, but in places partially- 

 concealed punctures; interstices each with a row of small, 

 shining granules. Ahdomen with very large punctures on 

 two basal segments, fifth with crowded smaller ones, third 

 and fourth conspicuously depressed below level of others. 

 Femora moderately long, strongly grooved, edentate, hind jDair 

 'ex tending to tip of elytra. Length, 3f-5 mm. 



Zr« 6. —Queensland: Bluff (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 1889. 



In appearance fairly close to Acalles dorice (12^ but wider, 

 "with larger punctures and different clothing. On the upper- 

 surface there are numerous rather dingy light-brown scales 

 scattered about in some spots (some paler than others), but 

 quite regularly clothing the suture; and there are numerous, 

 but very indistinct, sooty-brown scales. On slight abrasion, 

 however, the spotted appearance is lost. On the under- 

 surface and legs the scales are mostly pale and rather thin, 

 much like the suberect ones on the upper-surface. In a direct 

 line the elytra are about once and one-half the length of pro- 

 thorax, but along the curve they are fully twice as long. 

 There are a few indistinct granules on the prothorax, mostly 

 on the flanks. 



Five specimens in the British Museum (from the Ade- 

 laide River) appear to represent a variety. They differ in 

 having the pale-brown scales on the upper-surface almost 

 confined to the apical half of the suture, elsewhere the scales 

 are of a more or less sooty-brown, but with rather distinct 

 whitish spots scattered about ; of these there are from one 

 to three on the second interstice, one or two on the third, 

 and one on the fifth. One of them has the clothing on the 

 apical portion of the suture whitish, and only three punctures 

 (but those unusually large) on the second abdominal segment. 



EuRYcis, n. g. 



Head wide, partially-concealed from above, base evenly 

 convex. Eyes small, widely separated, coarsely faceted. 



(12) To be referred to Pseudoporopterus. 



