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wide; tibiae each with apical hook strong, and witli an acute 

 tooth near outer apex. Length, 6-J-8| mm. 



9 . Differs in having the rostrum slightly longer and 

 much thinner, base less inflated, and with sparser punctures, 

 elsewhere highly polished and impunctate or almost so; scape 

 even shorter and inserted nearer base of rostrum, and basal 

 segment of abdomen convex instead of depressed in middle. 



Hab.— 'Norfolk Island (J. C. Wiburd). 



Smaller and usually darker than spencei, rostrum some- 

 what thinner, less conspicuously ridged at base, with the sub- 

 lateral sulci smaller and pectoral canal less encroached upon 

 by front coxae. The clothing on fresh specimens is probably 

 rather dense, but it appears to be particularly liable to 

 abrasion, as the majority of the twenty-three specimens before 

 me are very feebly clothed, and some are quite glabrous on 

 the upper-surface and almost so on the under-surface and 

 legs. On the under-surface and legs there are some thin 

 setae, and these are less deciduous than the scales. On some 

 specimens the prothorax has an impunctate median line. The 

 size seems to be independent of sex. 



Sympiezoscelus spencei, Waterh. ; var. minor, n. var. 



Mr. Carter has sent twenty specimens from Dorrigo (New 

 South Wales) that differ from the typical form of spencei in 

 being considerably smaller (6|-9 mm.), but otherwise much 

 the same. These specimens closely resemble norfolcensis, and 

 perhaps indicate that that form should be reg^arded as a 

 variety only. 



WlBURDIA DENTIPES, n. Sp. 



Black, in places obscurely diluted with red ; antennae and 

 tarsi reddish. Moderately clothed with light-brown and sooty 

 scales; on the under-surface longer and paler than on upper- 

 surface. Prothorax with four fascicles of short, sooty scales 

 across middle, the two median ones continued to apex; elytra 

 with three on the third interstice, two on the fifth, and one 

 on the second. 



Head rather strongly convex; with very dense partially- 

 concealed punctures. Rostrum rather short and straight, 

 sides feebly dilated from base to near apex, lower walls of 

 scrobes cut away at base; with dense and not very small 

 punctures, in places feebly confluent. Antennae rather stout; 

 scape inserted about two-fifths from apex of rostrum, some- 

 what shorter than funicle ; second to seventh joints of funicle 

 transverse. Prothorax moderately transverse, base strongly 

 bisinuate and not twice the width of apex, which is truncate 

 and subtubular, basal two-thirds gently rounded ; with very 

 dense punctures. Scutellum distinct. Elytra distinctly but 



