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minus perspicue cinereo-pubescens ; supra confertim sub- 

 tilissime (haud multo aliter quam Ar&ocerus fasciculatus, 

 De Geer) subaspere punctulatum ; rostro curn capite con- 

 tinuo ; prothorace vage inaequali ; elytris striatis, in parte 

 suturali conjunctim planatis ; pedibus pube cinerea plus 

 minusve perspicue maculatis ; antennis prothoracern medium 

 paullo superantibus, clava quam articuli 4 1 " — 8™ conjuncti 

 vix brevioribus, articulis 9 C vix (10° manifeste) transverso 

 11° obconico quam latiori parum longiori. Long., 1-|- 1.; 

 lat„ f 1. (vix). 

 There are indications on the specimen before me of the whitish 

 hair-like scales on the upper surface having been in places con- 

 densed into somewhat conspicuous blotches which are chiefly 

 about the middle of the front of the prothorax, on the scutellum 

 and about the sides of the prothorax and elytra, especially near 

 the shoulders, and it is possible some such markings may have 

 been rubbed off, although the presence of the even thinly dis- 

 tributed pubescence seems inconsistent with the surface being 

 much abraded. A vague depression runs down the middle of 

 the prothorax longitudinally, on either side of which slightly 

 behind the middle is a distinct transverse gibbosity. The 

 fourth interstice of each elytron is more conspicuous than the 

 other interstices, chiefly through the space between the fourth 

 interstices of the two elytra (including the suture) being flat- 

 tened. Most of the interstices are furnished in some part of 

 their length with unequal feebly raised tubercles. The head 

 and rostrum together form a perfectly even flattened surface 

 without any trace of distinction inter se. The insect has much 

 of the structure of Arceocerus but with the rostrum and scrobes 

 of a true Anthribid. 



Victoria. 

 S. contemptwm, sp. nov. Fere ut prsecedens (S. planatunx) 

 coloratum et pubescens sed pedibus dilutioribus et elytris ad 

 apicem runs ; rostro cum capite continuo ; prothorace 

 tequali, lateribus mox ante basin manifeste sinuatis, angulis 

 posticis extrorsum manifeste acutis ; elytris requaliter con- 

 vexis, interstitiis vix perspicue tuberculatis ; antennis pro- 

 thoraeis basin attingentibus, clava quam articuli 3^ — 8^ con- 

 juncti vix breviori, articulis 9° — 11° elongatis (10° quam 

 9 113 et \V^ manifeste breviori. Long., \\ 1.; lat., i 1. (vix). 

 This species closely resembles the preceding in general appear- 

 ance, but is certainly distinct. The pronotum is devoid of 

 inequalities and the elytra have no longitudinal flattening on the 

 sutural region, their interstices also being all but devoid of 

 insequalities. The sides of the prothorax are quite strongly 

 incurved just in front of the base, and the hind angles of that 



