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a vague bluish tinge) becoming condensed into an irregular 

 fascia at summit of posterior declivity ; on most of the 

 declivity the scales are sooty, but there are usually some con- 

 spicuous white- spots about the suture. The abdomen is 

 usually vaguely striped, and the legs more or less con- 

 spicuously ringed. But, as with other terrestrial weevils, the 

 markings are frequently obscured. There is a slight difference 

 in the convexity of abdomen between some specimens and 

 others, but no other differences, likely to be sexual, are 

 apparent. 



SUBFAMILY HYLOBIIDES. 

 Orthorrhinus bicolor, Blackb. 



Two specimens (marked as co-types) standing under this 

 name in the collection of the late Rev. T. Blackburn are 

 simply abraded specihiens of one of the numerous varieties of 

 0. cethiops. 



SUBFAMILY ERIRHINIDES. 



MlSOPHRICE. 



Specimens of this genus are probably to be taken in all 

 parts of Australia where trees or shrubs of the genus 

 Casuarina (sheoaks and bulloaks) occur. I have never yet 

 failed to obtain them when looking for same, and am now 

 able to extend the known range of the genus to Cairns, in 

 Northern Queensland, and to Kangaroo Island, in South Aus- 

 tralia. No species as yet has been recorded from Central 

 and North-western Australia or from the Northern Territory; 

 but this is almost certainly due to the fact that they have 

 not been specially looked for there, as probably of all the 

 minute plant-eating Australian weevils they are the most 

 readily overlooked; despite the fact that they frequently 

 occur in abundance at all times of the year. 



The scales vary on several species from brilliantly 

 metallic-green or golden to an opaque-white or bluish-grey. 

 The sexes vary in the abdomen and rostrum. 



Misophrice gloriosa, Lea. 



Mr. Griffith has taken, near Adelaide, numerous speci- 

 mens of the Variety A of this species ; but some of these have 

 the legs distinctly reddish. 



Variety C. A specimen, taken near Adelaide by Mr. 

 Griffith, has the elytra densely clothed with sooty scales, 

 except for a few dingy whitish ones about base, and some more 

 about basal third. But on the sides, more especially beyond 

 the middle, there are some white scales with a coppery gloss. 

 Most of the scales on the head and prothorax are also sooty. 



