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North Queensland. It is widely distributed in the Malay 

 Archipelago and New Guinea. Pascoe described the typical 

 specimens as variable, and the three specimens before me 

 (from Queensland, the Fly River, (i^) and Aru) are all some- 

 what different in clothing; but they agree in having four 

 small dark fascicles (placed as it were each at the corner of 

 a small square) at the apex of the prothorax ; and a distinct 

 patch of whitish scales at the apex of the elytra, and another 

 on each side near the middle. The original figure is somewhat 

 misleading, as the insect is made to appear rather strongly 

 convex, instead of which it is unusually flat, and in fact 

 feebly concave along the middle; the figure (lb) of the under- 

 surface, however, is more satisfactory. 



Brachycts, n. g. 



Head rather small, concealed from above. Eyes 

 moderately large, finely faceted. Rostrum long and thin, 

 feebly curved. Antennae thin; scape inserted about middle 

 of rostrum, the length of funicle; two basal joints of funicle 

 elongate, the others transverse ; club elongate-elliptic, sutures 

 oblique. Prothorax strongly transverse. Scutellum distinct. 

 Elytra scarcely longer than wide, base closely applied to pro- 

 thorax and no wider than same. Pectoral canal deep, ter- 

 minated between m.iddle coxae. Mesosternum composed of 

 four pieces on each side between coxae and elytra ; receptacle 

 depressed on each side, but middle raised, cavernous, and 

 with U-shaped walls. Metasternum almost as long as the 

 following segment; episterna wide. Abdomen with two basal 

 segments large, first almost as long as second to fourth com- 

 bined. Legs rather short; femora stout, strongly dentate; 

 tibiae compressed. Squamose, tuberculate, winged. 



An extraordinary genus of doubtful affinities, but the 

 rather long m.etasternum, with w^ide episterna, and long and 

 but feebly curved rostrum seem to associate it with the allies 

 of Chcetectetorus, perhaps near E uthyrrhinus , although the 

 elytra are not mucronate. In the table of genera allied to 

 Chcetectetorus ^'^'^) it would be associated with Pseudometyrus, 

 with which, however, it has but little in common. The cloth- 

 ing normally partially conceals the side pieces of the meso- 

 sternum, but on two of the specimens before me their sutures 

 are distinct ; starting from the coxa the first appears to be 

 irregularly four-sided, but its front curves round the coxa till 

 it meets the receptacle, the second is a triangle, the third is 

 irregularly four-sided, but at first appears to be a triangle 

 with its apex cut off at the metasternum; the fourth is also 

 four-sided, but is wider than long, 



(16) From Dr. Gestro. 



(i7)Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 1909, pp. 594-595. 



