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In a fresh specimen the sculpture of the derm is almost 

 entirely concealed by the pubescence,- even the callosities near the 

 base of the elytra being scarcely discernible ; these are not 

 strongly marked even in an abraded example ; that between the 

 scutellum and the shoulder is the larger, and appears feebly 

 bifid from some points of view. The pattern formed by pube- 

 scence of different colours is extremely intricate and difficult to 

 describe. The rostrum is entirely clothed with pale pubesoence ;. 

 on the head dark, pale, and ochreous pubescence are vaguely 

 intermingled ; on the pronotum the middle of the disc and base 

 is dark with a few pale spots, the front and sides being mostly 

 pale with some dark patches ; the pubescence of the front two- 

 thirds of the elytra is dark, irrorated with pale hairs, which aro 

 condensed (interruptedly) along some of the alternate interstices 

 and in small spots near the sides ; the apical one-third of the 

 elytra is occupied by a large common patch (which however does 

 not reach the margins) of pale pubescence, close to the lateral 

 margins of which (and about their middle) is a conspicuous dark 

 spot, while another conspicuous dark spot occupies the sutural 

 apical space on each elytron. The small indistinct tubercles on 

 the alternate interstices are clothed, some with ochreous, some 

 with very dark, pubescence. In an absolutely unabraded speci- 

 men the front part of the fifth interstice appears more strongly 

 elevated than the other interstices, but this seems to be due to 

 longer and closer pubescence, as I do not find it in abraded 

 specimens. The greatest dilatation of the sides of the prothorax 

 is at the extremities of the ante-basal carina, from which point 

 the sides converge both forward and hindward. 



Victoria and N.S. Wales (specimens in the S.A. Museum are 

 without indication of habitat, but are probably from S.A.). 



enspondus (gen. no v. Anthribidarum). 

 Caput transversum ; rostrum depressum planum, cum capite haud 

 continuum, breve, transversum, quam caput haud angustius, 

 scrobibus lateralibus, magnis, foveiformibus, obtectis ; an- 

 tennae modicae, prothoracem medium paullo superantes, 

 articulis basalibus 2 quam sequentes robustioribus (2° quam 

 l ns paullo longiori), 2° — 5° longitudine sat aequalibus, 6° — 8 a 

 paullo brevioribus, 9° quam 8 US paullo longiori sed parum 

 latiori, 10° 11° que clavam formantibus quam 9 US duplo 

 latioribus, 10° vix 11° haud transversis, 11° obconico; oculi 

 modici integri, sat subtiliter granulati, inter se late separati ; 

 prothorax vix transversus, valde inaequalis, sat convexus, 

 antice fortiter angustatus, carina antebasali basi sat ap- 

 proximata bene definita leviter antrorsum arcuata in pro- 

 thoracis lateribus fere ad medium producta ; scutellum 

 parvum ; elytra convexa, insequalia, striata ; coxae anticse 



