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the antennae is altogether as in a typical Arceocerus in being 

 slightly nearer to the middle line of the head and rostrum than 

 is the inner margin of the eye. The specimens before me are 

 females. Their antennal club is short and moderately stout. 

 S. Australia ; Eyre's Peninsula. 



AR^EOCERODES (gen. nov. Anthribidarum). 



Caput transversum ; rostrum transversum, supra sat planum, ad 

 apicem truncatum, ad basin quam caput haud angustius, 

 scrobibus ut Arceoceri ; antennae prothoracis basin paullo 

 superantes, sat graciles, articulis basalibus 2 quam ceteri 

 robustioribus (2° longiori), 8° ad apicem leviter dilatato, 

 9° — 1 l°clavam elongatam laxe articulatam formantibus; oculi 

 oblongo-ovales haud (vel vix) emarginati, grossissime granu- 

 lati ; prothorax transversus, aequalis, antice modice angus- 

 tatus, carina antebasali nulla ; carina basalis ad latera 

 angulata et antrorsum brevissime producta ; scutellum 

 angustum ; elytra convexa, aequalia, striata, striis fortiter 

 nee crebre punctulatis ; coxae anticae sat contiguae ; pedes 

 modici, anticis quam ceteri longioribus ; tarsi modici, 

 articulo 3° in 2° profunde inserto ; unguiculi subtus dentati. 

 Structurally near to Arceocerus, but of evidently more cylindric 

 form and with narrow, elongate, very coarsely granulated eyes. 

 The species is the smallest Anthribid that I have seen. 

 A. lilliputanus, sp. nov. Palhde testaceus, antennarum clava 

 obscura ; pube albido-testacea vestitus, hac in elytris trifa- 

 sciatim disposita ; capite prothoraceque confertim subfortiter 

 granulatis ; prothoracis angulis posticis (superne visis) re- 

 trorsum acutis. Long., § 1. (vix); lat., -^j 1. 

 The characters not mentioned in the above specific description 

 are fully stated in the generic diagnosis and need not be re- 

 peated. Its excessively minute size will at once distinguish 

 this insect from all the previously described Australian 

 AnthribidcB. 



N. Queensland ; sent to me by the late Mr. Cowley. 



PHYTOPHAGA. 

 CLEPTOR. 



I have before me examples of both species of this genus, named 

 by Mr. Jacoby and agreeing so well with Lefevre's descriptions 

 that I can feel no doubt of their identity. But I think the 

 genus is not rightly placed next to Ednsa as it seems to me very 

 much closer to Colaspoides, of which it entirely reproduces the 

 prosternal characters. M. Lefevre indeed characterises the 

 Edusitce inter alia by the phrase " prosternum oblongum " and 

 yet places Cleptor in that group in spite of his diagnosis of its 



