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With the very dense clothing of squamiventris, although 

 on a different pattern, but the rostrum straight, and shorter 

 and thicker (unusually so for the genus). Squamosa, 

 described as having the rostrum nearly straight (it is quite 

 straight in the present species), is larger, with clothing very 

 different, colour different, rostrum 5-carinate (this character 

 is probably confined to the male, however), and elytra nar- 

 rowed from base to apex. 



The clothing on the upper-surface is mostly without 

 gloss, but towards the sides is faintly glossed, whilst on the 

 tinder-surface, head, and basal third of rostrum, it is shining 

 and almost golden. The dark mottlings on the type, and only 

 specimen examined, consist of an irregular median blotch on 

 the prothorax, and several very irregular patches on the 

 elytra, of which the most conspicuous one extends from the 

 basal fifth obliquely to the suture at its middle, but they are 

 probably very variable. Erect or suberect setae are entirely 

 absent from the upper-surface. 



Misophrice Carteri, n. sp. 



Black or blackish - brown, elytra (base, suture, and an 

 elongated spot on fifth interstice posteriorly excepted), legs 

 (tarsi excepted), scape, and basal joint of funicle of a dingy- 

 reddish flavous. Rather sparsely clothed with thin, pale, 

 greenish scales, or setae. 



Rostrum long, thin, and strongly curved, distinctly 

 longer than prothorax, with rows of coarse punctures towards 

 base, but elsewhere almost or quite impunctate. Antennae 

 thin, first joint of funicle as long as three following combined. 

 Prothorax moderately transverse, sides strongly rounded, base 

 distinctly wider than apex ; with fairly dense punctures of 

 moderate size. Elytra at base slightly wider than widest part 

 of prothorax, sides feebly dilated to beyond the middle, and 

 then evenly rounded with regular rows of fairly large punc- 

 tures in feeble striae; interstices with small punctures. Legs 

 moderately stout; front coxae almost touching. Length, 2 

 mm. 



Hab.—New South Wales: Gosford (H. J. Carter). 



The black shining rostrum with blackish prothorax will 

 distinguish from vitiata; variabilis is considerably larger, 

 with shorter and paler rostrum ; apionoides, spilota, inflata, 

 vicina, and amplicollis have paler rostrum and prothorax, 

 and are besides not of the same shape. The outlines of the 

 elytra are as in spilota, but the prothorax is much less attenu- 

 ated in front. 



The clothing on the types may possibly be somewhat 

 abraded, but the species belongs to a group on which the 



