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On one specimen the dark elytral spots cover considerably more 

 than half of the surface, and are all more or less conjoined. 

 On the under-surface the scales are uniformly white, or with 

 a slight tinge of green. On the legs they are sometimes very 

 feebly mottled. Four are apparently males; the other is 

 apparently a female, and differs in being somewhat larger, 

 with the scales dingier and less conspicuously variegated. 



A specimen, from Kuranda, in Mr. G. E. Bryant's 

 collection, differs from the types in being much paler (the 

 appendages are almost flavous). The scales on the head and 

 rostrum entirely white; on the prothorax white, with two 

 dark longitudinal stripes, each of which has a lateral pro- 

 jection at its middle; on the elytra most of the scales are 

 dark, but with irregular white spots and fasciae. 



SUBFAMILY OTIORHYNCHIDES. 



Myllocerus. 



As the described species of Myllocerus have now been 

 more than trebled since my first table/ 16 ) a more extended one 

 is now desirable. As in the former one, all species not 

 actually known to myself have been omitted. Tables are 

 often given to show how species, genera, etc., are allied, and 

 yet distinguished, inter se. In the present table, as with 

 others that I have given, the sole idea is to present the species 

 in such a way that their identification may be more quickly 

 accomplished than by wading through a mass of descriptions. 



Many species have small femoral teeth, and others are 

 entirely without same, but it is often so difficult to decide as 

 to whether teeth are or are not present, especially if the 

 specimens are at all dirty or gummy, that I have not used 

 them for the major divisions. Nor have the comparative 

 widths of the rostrum and the incurvature of its sides been 

 so used; as the gradations in long series of species are so fine 

 that they can only be usefully employed in separating really, 

 or apparently, closely allied species. Many of the species are 

 subject to considerable variation in colour/ 17 ) but I avoided 

 using same to a greater extent than was perhaps necessary. 



(16) Ante, 1905, p. 218. 



(17) This is especially the case Avith green scales ; these some- 

 times become golden or silvery, through the action of alcohol, etc. ; 

 grease will also sometimes cause them to appear of a dull-white, 

 either entirely or in small patches of irregular shape and dis- 

 position. Snowy-white scales also naturally become somewhat 

 darker with age, etc. It has appeared to me to be quite possible 

 that "the large round spot of orange-brown" on the elytra of 

 rusiicus (unknown to me) may really not be natural to the species. 



