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Rostrum wide, feebly curved; scrobes narrow and deep in 

 front, but wide and shallow behind. Antennae moderately 

 thin, inserted nearer apex than base of rostrum; scape 

 shorter than funicle; two basal joints of funicle elongate; 

 club elliptic-ovate. Prothorax strongly transverse, sides 

 strongly rounded, apex produced. Scutellum absent. Elytra 

 scarcely longer than wide, sides strongly rounded, base with 

 produced tubercles. Pectoral canal deep and wide, terminated 

 just behind front coxae. Mesosternal receptacle rather large, 

 elevated in front, emargination strongly transverse, cavernous. 

 Metasternum very short; episterna narrow. Abdomen rather 

 large, first segment almost twice the length of second, its 

 suture with that segment distinct only at sides, third and 

 fourth very short. Legs short and stout; femora edentate, 

 shallowly grooved; tarsi linear, spongiose on lower surface. 

 Briefly ovate, tuberculate, densely squamose, apterous. 



The tarsi might fairly be regarded as linear, as the third 

 joint is almost the exact width of the second, and this would 

 associate the genus with Scolyphrtis, Agenopus, and a section' 

 of Poropterus and of Euryporopterus. From Scolyphriis it is 

 distinguished by the very different base of elytra; from 

 Poropterus by the grooved femora, and from Euryporopterus 

 by the convex base of head. The generic diagnosis of 

 Agenopus is simply a brief comparison with Poropterus and 

 Mormosintes, but the description of A. agricola indicates a 

 very different looking species to the present one. 



EURYCIS MULTINODOSUS, n. Sp. 



Black; antennae of a dingy-red. Densely clothed with 

 muddy-brown scales, in places appearing as fascicles owing to 

 numerous small tubercles. 



Head with dense punctures. Rostrum scarcely as long as 

 prothorax, but little more than twice as long as greatest 

 width, sides distinctly incurved to middle ; with four rows 

 of large, round punctures, becoming smaller and crowded at 

 apex. Prothorax almost twice as wide as long, sides strongly 

 rounded, apex about one-fourth the width of middle; with 

 some small tubercular swellings, and with crowded, partially- 

 concealed punctures. Elytra not one-fourth longer than wide, 

 sides nowhere parallel, and widest at about basal fourth; 

 with irregular rows of large, more or less concealed punctures; 

 interstices with numerous small tubercles. Under -surf ace 

 with large, round, deep punctures. Length, 6^-7^ mm. 



Hah. — Australia (old collection). Type, I. 1516. 



The specimens were simply labelled 27/1/79 and 19/5/79, 

 but are probably from South Australia. On one of them the 

 scales are not at all variegated, but on the other there are 



