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At first the species described below appears to belong to 

 BrachyjJoro pterus,'^^^^ from which (and also from Poropterus) 

 it is distinguished by its metasternal episterna. At a glance 

 it appears close to P. montanus, but the shoulders are very 

 different. The femora are very minutely dentate, and the 

 teeth are concealed by clothing, but even when this has been 

 abraded they are seen with difficulty; but regarding them as 

 dentate the genus would be associated (^"7) with Anilaus which 

 has strongly dentate femora, and is otherwise very different. 

 ^Regarding them as edentate, it would be associated with 

 Orthoporopterus, to which it is not at all close. In general 

 it is much like a Nechyrus, but the eyes and mesosternal 

 receptacle distinguish it from that genus. 



B^ODONTOCIS MEGAPHOLUS, n. Sp. 



Black; antennae and tarsi obscurely reddish. Densely 

 clothed with large, soft, muddy-brown or muddy-grey scales; 

 with stout suberect ones, condensed into fascicles on upper- 

 surface and thickly distributed on legs. 



Head with dense normally-concealed punctures. Rostrum 

 ;as long as prothorax, sides very feebly incurved to middle; 

 with dense and rather small but clearly-defined punctures, 

 smaller and sparser in middle than elsewhere. Prothorax 

 moderately transverse, sides strongly rounded, apex more than 

 Tialf the width of middle; with a short distinct median 

 •carina : with feeble swellings supporting feeble fascicles ; with 

 normally-concealed punctures. Elytra not twice as long as 

 wide, shoulders somewhat produced, apex obtusely notched; 

 ivith rows of very large partially-concealed punctures, third 

 and fifth interstices with feeble tubercular swellings. Under- 

 -surface with rather small but usually distinct punctures. 

 Xength, 6^-Qh mm. 



Hab.—N^ew South Wales: Dorrigo (H. W. Cox). 



On one specimen the metasternal episterna are quite dis- 

 tinct, but on another, owing to a slight displacement of the 

 clothing, they are indistinct. The suture between the two 

 hasal segments of abdomen is quite distinct across the middle, 

 although not deeply impressed there. The hind femora, when 

 placed in a line with the sides of the elytra, just pass their 

 "tips, but unless so placed appear to be shorter. As the cloth- 

 ing of the rostrum is confined to the extreme base, it is prob- 

 able that both the typical specimens are females. On the 

 sides of the prothorax the scales are larger than elsewhere. 



(36) Near which it should be placed in catalogues. 



(37) In a (at present unpublished) table of the allies of 

 Poropterus. 



