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even interstices) giving an appearance as of numerous feeble 

 fascicles. The legs are also feebly ringed with sooty scales. 

 The type appears to be a male. 



Ophrythyreocis mi crops, n. sp. 



Blackish; antennae and tarsi red. Rather densely 

 clothed with muddy-brown or muddy-grey scales, with some 

 stout suberect ones scattered about, and in places forming 

 feeble fascicles. 



Head rather convex, and with concealed punctures in 

 front; forehead somewhat sinuous and bald where normally 

 concealed. Eyes latero-frontal, small, and prominent. 

 Rostrum moderately long, somewhat dilated in front of 

 antennas (which are situated at the apical two-fifths), with a 

 short, shining, impunctate median line, elsewhere with dense 

 and rather coarse punctures, concealed only about extreme 

 base. Prothorax moderately transverse, apex more than half 

 the width of middle; punctures dense but concealed. Elytra 

 briefly subcordate, base truncate, sides strongly rounded; 

 with rows of moderately large partially-concealed punctures ; 

 interstices feebly subtuberculate beneath fascicles. Third and 

 fourth segments of ahdomen level with fifth, and but slightly 

 depressed below second. Femora stout, grooves and teeth 

 extremely feeble. Length, 2 J mm. 



Hah. — Australia (A. Bovie). 



The erect scales are less numerous than on the other 

 known species, and the fascicles are extremely feeble; of the 

 latter six may be traced on the prothorax, and several across 

 the base and middle of elytra. The type is almost certainly 

 a female. 



B^ODONTOCIS, n. g. 



Head of moderate size, partially concealed from above. 

 Eyes rather small, widely separated, coarsely faceted. 

 Rostrum rather long and thin, moderately curved. Antennae 

 thin; scape inserted slightly nearer apex than base of 

 rostrum; two basal joints of funicle elongate; club ovate. 

 Prothorax transverse, sides rounded, apex produced. Scutel- 

 lum small. Elytra with sides rounded to beyond the middle, 

 sides thence arcuate to apex, base trisinuate. Pectoral canal 

 deep and wide, terminated between middle coxae. Mesosternal 

 receptacle rather widely U-shaped, feebly raised ; cavernous. 

 Metasternum about half the length of the following segment ; 

 episterna narrow but traceable throughout. Ahdomen with 

 two basal segments large, the suture between them incurved to 

 middle, third and fourth combined about the length of second 

 and fifth, and not depressed below them. Legs rather long; 

 femora not grooved; tibiae lightly bisinuate. 



