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seen, however, black depressed setae are fairly numerous, but 

 possibly the type was abraded. One of the Museum speci- 

 mens is labelled "Westwoodi, Hope Coll./' but it certainly i& 

 not the Westwoodi of the Macleay Museum, nor does it agree 

 with Macleay's quoted description of that species. 



Amycterus Leichardti, Macl. 



A British Museum male, labelled as from South-West 

 Australia, has the elytral tubercles reddish, and this is pro- 

 bably their normal colour, as most of the males that I have 

 seen have similar tubercles. 



SUBFAMILY CYLINDRORHINIDES. 



Perperus languidus, Er. 



The type of this species is before me. It has the first 

 joint of the funicle longer than the second; a character which 

 will distinguish it from most species of the genus, but in 

 which it agrees with costirostris and malevolens. From both 

 of these, however, it differs in the antennae being much 

 thinner, and the median carina of the rostrum obsolete 

 instead of acute and sharply defined. It agrees perfectly, 

 however, with a specimen identified by the Rev. T. Blackburn 

 as innocuus, Boh.^ 2 ) In general appearance it is very close 

 to Conloni. 



Perperus cervinus, Boh. (Pantojiceus). 



Three specimens before me from Sydney and Maitland 

 (New South Wales) ( 3 ) agree with both the generic and specific 

 diagnoses of this species. Three others (from Bulli) have the 

 derm entirely reddish and the pale latero-basal markings of 

 the prothorax less conspicuous. 



The second joint of the funicle is about one-fourth longer 

 than the first. The prothorax has a narrowly-impressed 

 median line, which, however, is not always traceable. 



The species is quite an ordinary Perperus. 



Perperus delens, Blackb. (Gentyres). 



Mr. Blackburn describes the two basal joints of the 

 funicle as being subequal ; this is the case, but the second is 

 slightly longer than the first. 



(2) Neither Erichson nor Boheman described the comparative 

 lengths of the two basal joints of the funicle; a most important 

 feature in Perperus. 



(3) The only locality given by Boheman was New Holland. 



