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AcACALLis PEKSONATA, Pasc. (now OrochJesis). 



( Queenslandica munda, Lea.) 



Deceived by the above-noted discrepancies, I redescribed 

 this species under the name of Queenslandica munda. Mr. 

 Pascoe said ''the pattern at the base (of the elytra?) has a 

 resemblance to the face of some animal." I cannot see any 

 such resemblance, however, either on the co-type or on four 

 other specimens. 



AcALLES EXPLETUS, Pasc. (now Decilaus.) 

 (Decilaus squamipennis, Lea.) 



The co-type of this species sent for examination certainly 

 belongs to Decilaus and to the species subsequently described 

 by me as D. squamipennis. The type was possibly somewhat 

 a<braded, as Pascoe described the elytra as sulcate-punctate ; 

 this is the case, but the punctures are normally so concealed 

 by clothing that they appear to be very small, and many are 

 quite concealed. Nor did Mr. Pascoe mention the dentition 

 of the front femora. 



Byrsia. 



The co-type of B. cerata sent bears a name-label in Mr. 

 Pascoe 's own writing. The genus was referred to the Cryptor- 

 hynchides with doubt, Mr. Pascoe thinking it possibly be- 

 longed to the Erirhinides; it might, in fact, very well be 

 referred to that subfamily, but as . some of its characters 

 denote an approach to Diethusa, it may, perhaps, be allowed 

 to remain in the Cryptorhynchides. 



The pectoral canal is represented by a rather deep and 

 squamose, but not acutely margined, groove in front of the 

 front coxae; these are lightly but distinctly separated, but 

 the canal between them is not sufl&ciently wide to allow the 

 rostrum to pass below them. The mesosternum is longer than 

 usual, with the middle coxae at its hind* margin, so that they 

 are rather more distant from the front pair than is usual, 

 and they are rather more widely separated than that pair. 

 The mesosternum between them is not in the form of a special 

 receptacle, but slopes up till it joins in with the metasternum. 

 The suture between the two basal segments of abdomen is 

 oertainly not obsolete in the middle (as described), but pos- 

 sibly on the type the clothing was matted together there. 

 The eyes are coarsely faceted. 



Byrsia cerata, Pasc. 



The co-type is a male, its under-surface is densely clothed 

 with silvery scales, the two basal segments of its abdomen 

 are conjointly concave, with the depression traceable on to 

 the metasternum. The basal third of the rostrum is squamose, 



