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strongly rounded as in elegans, but the disc is flattened, the 

 femora are unarmed, and the size is much smaller. The 

 flattened disc of the prothorax will also distinguish it from 

 usitatus and clarwini. 



Myllocerus squamicornis, n. sp. 



Black, parts of appendages more or less reddish. Densely 

 clothed with golden-green scales. Elytra with fairly distinct, 

 subdepressed stramineous setae, more distinct on suture than 

 elsewhere. 



Head rather convex, but somewhat flattened in front. 

 Eyes not very prominent. Rostrum distinctly shorter than 

 the basal width, sides distinctly decreasing in width to apex; 

 carinae not traceable. Antennae long and thin; scape 

 moderately curved; first joint of funicle twice the length of 

 second, second scarcely longer than third. Prothorax lightly 

 transverse, sides feebly rounded, apex straight and just per- 

 ceptiblv wider than base, narrowest part slightly outwards 

 of fourth elytral stria, base feebly bisinuate; punctures 

 scarcely traceable. Elytra much wider than prothorax: 

 striation distinct but punctures almost or quite concealed. 

 Femora edentate. Length, 4^ mm. 



Hab. — South Australia: Cleve (J. Blackburn). Type, 

 I. 2558. 



The prothorax is almost exactly the same width at base 

 as at apex, but as on close examination it certainly appears 

 to be slightly narrower at the base, it has been tabulated with 

 a/if/t/stibasis, from which it differs in many respects in the 

 head and prothorax. But regarding it as belonging to II in 

 the table, it would be associated with usitatus, whose head, 

 eyes, rostrum, and antennae are all different. Tatei, the only 

 other green species known from South Australia, has con- 

 spicuously dentate femora, and is otherwise very different. 

 The scales on the antennae are of the same shade of green as. 

 on the rest of the body; in most species of the genus the 

 antennal clothing is usually much paler. The head is un- 

 usually wide and flattened in front, with the flattened space 

 continued almost to apex of rostrum ; on the latter the median 

 carina is not at all traceable, and the sublateral ones are 

 traceable only as vague elevations where the antennae are 

 inserted. The short second joint of funicle is also distinctive. 



Myllocerus nigrovarius, n. sp. 



Black, appendages reddish. Densely clothed with bright- 

 green scales, variegated with black on prothorax and elytra. 



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