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Long. 9'5, lat. 2*2 mm. 



This species is somewhat stouter than C. dorim^ Paso., to which 

 it has a pretty close resemblance in colour and sculpture. The 

 scales with which it is covered are, however, darker in colour, beino: 

 mostly of an ochreous-brown tint, with grey patches on the sides of 

 the prothorax, on the middle of the disk close to the base, along the 

 median third of the elytral suture, and behind the middle of each 

 elytron. The species differs further from C. dorice. in having longer 

 and straighter posterior tibiae, the inner face of which is furnished 

 along the distal half with long tawny -brown hairs, similar to but 

 less dense than those which are present also along nearly the whole 

 length of the inner (or lower) face of the anterior and middle tibiee ; 

 the first two joints of the anterior and middle tarsi are thickly, 

 those of the posterior tarsi sparsely, fringed on each side with 

 similar long hairs. 



One male example, taken on the north coast; March, 1898. 



63. Mecopus bispiuosus, Web., var. 



This is a variable species, and widely distributed throughout the 

 Eastern Archipelago. 



64. Trochorhopalus strangulatus, Gyll. 



Sphenophorus strangulatut, Gyll. : in Schoen. Gen. Curculion., iv, p. 963. 



The examples from Christmas Island, while agreeing in most 

 respects with others which I have seen, are somewhat narrower 

 in form, and may possibly be distinct. Mr. J. Faust, who has been 

 good enough to examine some specimens I sent to him, considers 

 them to belong to this species, which is a widely distributed one, 

 having been recorded from Siam, Malacca, the Philippines, Java, 

 Borneo, and other islands of the Malay Archipelago as far as New 

 Guinea. 



65. Rhabdocnemis fausti, Gahan, sp.n. 



R. ohscuro (Boisd.) sat similis sed prothorace angustiore, elytris 

 plus oblongis, densius tomentosis et fortius punctatis. 



Long. 12-13, lat. 42-45 mm. 



Kostrum not very strongly curved, tuberculate underneath in 

 the male, unarmed in the female. Prothorax almost one-half 

 longer than broad, scarcely narrowed towards the base, the sides 

 converging from the middle up to the tubulate apex; disk naked 

 along the middle, but marked with sericeous grey punctures. 

 Elytra covered with a dense silky tomentum ; punctate -striate, the 

 punctures being large and distinct, and wider than the striae along 

 which they are placed. 



