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EXITHIUS STENOCERUS, n. Sp. 



Blackish; antennae and tarsi reddish. Moderately densely 

 clothed with dingy-brown scales, becoming sooty in places. 

 Prothorax with six feeble fascicles, the elytra with more. 



Head with punctures concealed in front. Eyes rather 

 more prominent than usual. Rostrum rather wide, almost 

 parallel-sided ; with dense and coarse punctures, almost con- 

 cealed except at tip, where they are smaller. Antennae thin; 

 scape inserted one-fourth from apex of rostrum, and the 

 length of funicle ; club elliptic-ovate. Prothorax moderately 

 transverse, sides strongly rounded ; with partially-concealed 

 granules and coarse concealed punctures; with a short and 

 feeble median carina. Elytra rather elongate, sides lightly 

 rounded, base lightly trisinuate ; with rows of large, deep, 

 suboblong, partially-concealed punctures; third to eighth 

 interstices with small tubercles, supporting fascicles; suture 

 with a few small granules. Under -surf ace with dense rough 

 punctures. Mesosternal receptacle scarcely raised, rather 

 widely U-shaped. Metasternal episterna very narrow, but 

 traceable throughout. Basal segment of abdomen depressed 

 in middle. Femora not very stout, rather lightly dentate. 

 Length, 4 J mm. 



Zfaft.— King Island (A. M. Lea). 



At first sight apparently belonging to Roptoperus, but 

 femora feebly dentate and third tarsal joint wider. The mxeso- 

 sternal receptacle has the base moderately wide and the emar- 

 gination transverse, but is less conspicuously raised, and with 

 a smaller base than is usual in the genus; the antennae also 

 are thinner, and are inserted nearer the apex of rostrum than 

 is usual. The hind femora are partially ringed with white 

 scales, but except for this the clothing is nowhere distinctly 

 variegated. On the type (almost certainly a male) most of the 

 head is concealed under the apex of the prothorax. 



Group 3. 



EXITHIUS OCCIDENTALIS, U. Sp. 



Blackish ; antennae and tarsi reddish, rostrum somewhat 

 darker. Rather densely clothed with scales varying from 

 almost white to sooty. 



Head evenly convex ; punctures normally concealed. Eyes 

 larger than usual. Rostrum moderately long, sides lightly 

 incurved to middle ; with small and fairly dense punctures in 

 front, becoming larger towards and concealed at base; with 

 an impunctate median line. Scape inserted one-third from 

 apex of rostrum, about as long as funicle. Prothorax moder- 

 ately transverse, evenly convex, sides strongly rounded, apex 

 more than half the width of middle; with dense partially- 



