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D. Eyes very large and prominent. Antennae 



equal in length to two-thirds of body ... Misthosima. 



DD. Eyes much smaller and less convex. Antennae 

 half as long as body. 

 E. Front tarsi very long and wide ... ... Doticus. 



EE. Front tarsi much shorter and narrower ... Araeocerus. 

 BB. Eyes narrow and elongate, coarsely granulate ... Araeocerodes. 



EUCORYNUS. 



The following species seems to belong to this genus, which has 

 not as yet been recorded as Australian. The presence of an 

 ante-basal carina on its pronotum together with the width of its 

 rostrum (not narrower at its base than the head) and the sulci- 

 form character of its antennal scrobes refer it to M. Lacordaire's 

 "groupe" Ecelonerides. In that " groupe " the four-jointed club 

 of its antennae refers it to JEacorynus, and I do not find anything 

 in M. Lacordaire's diagnosis of the genus inconsistent with the 

 characters of the insect described below, except in the antennae 

 of the insect being somewhat shorter than they should be accord- 

 ing to the diagnosis. 



JS. Mastersi, sp. nov. Cylindricus ; nigro-piceus, antennis (clava 

 excepta) tarsisque rufis; pube picea vestitus, hac pube alba 

 et setulis erectis piceis et aliis albis maculatim variegata ; 

 capite rostroque crebre subgrosse aequaliter punctulatis; 

 pronoto leviter transverso, ut caput punctulato, antice 

 fortiter angustato, lateribus sat arcuatis ; elytris leviter 

 striatis, striis fortiter nee crebre punctulatis, interstitiis 

 planis vix perspicue punctulatis ; antennis robustis prothor- 

 acis basin attingentibus, articulis 1° 2° que quam 3 US paullo 

 brevioribus, 4° 3° sat sequali, 5° — 7° paullo brevioribus, 8° — 

 1 1° clavam compactam depressam (hac quam articuli 4 US — 7 as 

 conjuncti paullo breviori) formantibus. Long., 4 1.; lat., 1^ 1. 



The erect setae are fine and recurved and are piceous or white 

 according to the colour of the depressed pubescence among which 

 they are situated. The white spots are, — about 5 moderately- 

 large on the head, a considerable number (all small) on the 

 pronotum, a considerable number (all small except a larger one 

 on the shoulder) on the front half of the elytra, and a large one 

 and a number of small ones on the apical one-third of the elytra. 

 The tibiae and abdomen are prettily variegated with piceous and 

 white pubescence, and there is much scattered white pubescence 

 on the rostrum. The two examples before me are probably 

 females, which may account for their antennae being shorter than 

 in the specimens of Eucorynus examined by Lacordaire, which he 

 believed to be males. 



Queensland ; sent to me by Mr. Masters and Mr. Cowley. 



