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and he appears to have overlooked it when referring another 

 species to Medicasta. 



Pantoreites arctatus, Pasc. (formerly OxyopsJ. 

 P. brevirostrisj Lea. 



Mr. Arrow has kindly sent a co-type of Oxyops arctatus, 

 Pasc. It is quite obviously a Pantoreites^ 2 ®) and is the species 

 I subsequently named P. btevirostris. In addition to being 

 referred to a wrong genus, the original description is grossly 

 misleading. 



Pantoreites trivirgatus, n. sp. 



Dark reddish-brown, in places almost black. Head and 

 rostrum, and under-surface and legs, and three lines on 

 prothorax and on elytra with dense snowy-white scales ; the 

 interspaces on prothorax and elytra with thinner, and more 

 or less stramineous scales or setae. 



Post rum moderately long, about twice as long as wide, 

 slightly wider near apex than elsewhere. Prothorax moder- 

 ately transverse, sides parallel on basal half and then rounded 

 to apex ; with dense, large punctures. Elytra elongate- 

 subcordate, distinctly wider than prothorax, sides decreasing in 

 width from shoulders to apex; with rows of large, almost or 

 quite concealed punctures ; interstices with normally concealed 

 punctures and minute granules. Tibia? denticulate. Length, 

 5-6 mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Southern Cross (H. W. 

 Brown). Type, I. 2722. 



At a glance somewhat like longirostris, but rostrum much 

 shorter and stouter, and elytra with a conspicuous white vitta 

 along suture from base to apex. From micans and triline- 

 albus, which also have a sutural vitta, it differs in the rostrum 

 being considerably longer, elytra with the space between the 

 suture and the vitta near each side, with four distinct inter- 

 stices clothed with setae instead of scales, and the sublateral 

 vitta confined to one interstice, or at most two, on each 

 -elytron. Yittatus has five white lines on each elytron. The 

 five typical specimens appear to have been originally covered 

 with a greasy meal, which has caked in places. 



Syarbis pulchellus, n. sp. 

 Reddish, in parts flavous; base of elytra and four large, 

 round, postmedian spots dark-brown, parts of under-surface 

 infuscate; with white or whitish scales, irregularly dis- 

 tributed, but forming a distinct median line on prothorax, 



(29) A genus proposed by Pascoe himself, in the same paper 

 (Journ. Linn. Soc, 1869, p. 462), as that containing the descrip- 

 tion (p. 482) of arctatus. 



