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vestitus ; supra crebre minus subtiliter (in probhorace paullo 

 magis subtiliter) aspere punctulatus ; elytris indistincte 

 punctulato-striatis. Long., li 1.; lat., \ 1. (vix). 

 I have described the characters of this insect (above) in dis- 

 cussing its generic position fully, and need not repeat them here. 

 I do not think my example is abraded. Its upper surface is 

 thinly clothed with rather long adpressed fine whitish hairs which 

 are slightly condensed into two very indistinct fascioe on the 

 elytra, in front of and behind the middle. On the undersurface 

 the pubescence is more even and slightly closer. 

 S. Australia ; Eyre's Peninsula. 



cacephatus (gen. nov. Anthribidarum). 



Caput sat breve ; rostrum transversum, sat planum, cum capite 

 haud continuum, ad apicem truncatum, ad basin quam caput 

 haud angustius, scrobibus lateralibus magnis foveiformibus 

 obtectis ; antennae corpus medium attingentes, robustse, 

 articulis basalibus 2 leviter incrassatis (2° quam l us sub- 

 longiori), 3° — 8° elongatis inter se sabaequalibus, 9° — 11° 

 clavam laxam formantibus, 9° quam lato sat longiori, 10° 

 quam 9 US vix latiori sed brevi leviter transverso, 11° ovali; 

 oculi magni integri subtilius granulati, antrorsum in fronte 

 sat fortiter convergentes ; prothorax leviter transversus, 

 antrorsum fere a basi angustatus, aequalis, carina antebasali 

 basi sab approximata bene definita retrorsum arcuata ad 

 latera angulata (nullo modo acute) et antrorsum fere ad 

 latera media producta ; scutellum parvum ; elytra sat con- 

 vexa, late subcylindrica, sat sequalia, punctulato-striata ; 

 coxse anticse inter se anguste separatee ; pedes sat elongati 

 (prsesertim antici) • tarsi sat elongati, articulo basali quam 

 2 US multo longiori, 3° in 2° inserto ; unguiculi subtus dente 

 basali armati ; metasternum modicum (quam segmentum 

 ventrale basale parum longius) ; pygidium manifestum ; 

 corpus pubescens. 



The insect for which I propose this name is evidently a member 

 of Lacordaire's "Groupe" " Tropiderides" and in his tabulation 

 of the genera it evidently stands with Apatenia, from which its 

 long antennse having their tenth joint transverse and very much 

 shorter than the ninth, inter alia, distinguish it. 



O. sericeus, sp. nov. Brunneus, pube albido-sericea vestitus ; 

 supra confertim subtiliter subaspere punctulatus ; elytris ad 

 basin singulatim leviter gibbis, minus fortiter striatis, striis 

 subtilius sat crebre punctulatis, interstitiis vix subconvexis, 

 sculptura postice obsoleta. Long., 2^ 1.; lat., 1 1. 



The characters cited in the generic diagnosis need not be re* 

 peated here. There are three examples before me, all of which 



