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following segment ; episterna rather narrow but distinct. 

 Abdomen fairly large, first segment as long as second and 

 third combined, its suture with second straight. Legs rather 

 short; femora feebly dentate, not grooved; tibiae lightly 

 compressed; tarsi with fourth joint elongate and sparsely 

 setose. 



The typical species at a glance resembles some of the 

 species of Storeus of the Erirhinides, but it differs from 

 Pseudostoreiis in the cavernous mesosternal receptacle. In 

 fact, it is not even close to that genus, being a member of the 

 Chcetectetorus group. The eyes are moderately, almost 

 coarsely, faceted, and the metasternum is just a trifle shorter 

 than the following segment, characters which, in my table of 

 the group ^^^^ associate the genus with Acr'otychreus, to which 

 it is not at all close. But regarding the metasternum as 

 slightly longer it would be associated with Menios, near which, 

 perhaps, it should be placed. The dentate femora distinguish 

 it from. Achopera; the teeth, however, are rather indistinct. 



SCOTINOCIS SAGITTIFER, U. Sp, 



Castaneous, in parts almost black ; antennae paler than 

 rostrum. Densely clothed with greyish scales, variegated 

 with sooty patches ; under-surface and legs with whitish 

 scales, but the legs feebly ringed Mdth darker ones ; with stout 

 suberect scales, in places compacted into feeble fascicles. 



Head with very dense concealed punctures. Rostrum 

 about as long as prothorax, sides lightly incurved to middle ; 

 with dense and rather coarse punctures, concealed behind 

 antennae, and leaving a feeble median line in front of same. 

 Prothorax rather lightly convex, base truncate ; with croM^ded 

 and usually concealed punctures. Elytra not much but dis- 

 tinctly wider than prothorax, base very lightly trisinuate ; 

 with rows of large more or less concealed punctures, becoming 

 smaller posteriorly. Under-surface with crowded partially- 

 concealed punctures. Length, 2^ mm. 



f7«6.— New South Wales: Guyra (H. J. Carteic). 



The stout scales are thickened or clubbed at their ends, 

 and are usually dark, even when set amongst pale ones. On 

 the prothorax there is a rather large medio-basal sooty patch, 

 with each of its front angles marked by a small fascicle (these 

 being across the middle of the disc). On the elytra there is a 

 rather large sooty patch, commencing at the base, encroached 

 upon by pale scales at the basal third, and then obliquely 

 dilated and terminated, so as to present a rough resemblance 

 to a broad-headed arrow, whose tip is on the suture just beyond 



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



