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the abdomen is never of a bright-red. The apical portion of 

 scape and basal portion of funicle are usually paler than the 

 rest of the antennae. From the preceding species it differs in 

 being smaller (the difference in this respect is not much, but 

 with a long series of both species before me it is at once 

 evident), with elytra, abdomen, and legs much darker, and 

 the elytra somewhat narrower at the base. The prothorax 

 also is a trifle longer than in that species. The sexual 

 differences are much the same. In general appearance close 

 to nigriventris, but elytra narrower, and at the base less 

 noticeably wider than the prothorax ; cylindracea is much 

 closer to it in general appearance, but has the rostrum 

 decidedly longer and thinner; clathrata is a somewhat smaller 

 species, with paler elytra and abdomen; nigripes is smaller^ 

 with darker legs, etc. The clothing consists of rather sparse 

 setose scales or setae, usually of a dull-whitish colour, but 

 sometimes of a dull-blue or dull-green; but frequently there 

 are a few glittering green or golden scales on the sides and 

 legs. Numerous specimens were beaten from casuarinas in a 

 "pocket" of the scrub near Yungaburra. 



Encosmia cornuta, Blackb. 



I have seen a fair number of specimens of this species 

 from Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales. On each 

 elytron immediately below the fascicle there is a spot of 

 ochreous or golden scales, connected with the apex by a short 

 stripe ; close to each shoulder at the base is a rounded spot of 

 similar scales, and there is a spot on each side of the base 

 of the prothorax, adjacent to the subhumeral one. 



SUBFAMILY CRYPTORHYNCHIDES. 



Tyrt^eosus simulator, Lea. 

 This name was recently < 5 °) used in error for imitator. 



Camptorrhinus inornatus, Lea. 

 There is a specimen of this species in the Western Aus- 

 tralian Museum from the Montebello Islands (North-western 

 Australia). 



SUBFAMILY COSSONIDES. 



Halorhynchus clecus, Woll. 



Mr. H. H. D. Griffith and I have taken specimens of this 

 species at the roots of plants on sand-dunes at Henley Beach, 

 near Adelaide, and on Kangaroo Island. It is the first blind 

 beetle to be recorded from South Australia. 



(50) Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., 1913, p. 337. 



