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a fresh specimen the sculpture of the derm is almost 
Hess concealed by the pubescenee, even the callosities near the 
base of the elytra being scarcely itecto; ; 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 etae is extremely intricate and difficult to 
describe. The rostrum is entirely clothed with pale pubescence ; 
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 are 
condensed (interruptedly) along some of the alternate interstices 
a e 
apical space on each elytron. The small distinot tubercles on 
the alternate mon 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 
specime ns. 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 SPUNT 
Victoria and N.S. Wales (specimens in the S.A. Museum are 
without indication of habitat, but are probably from S.A.). 
ENSPONDUS (gen. nov. Anthribidarum). 
Caput transversum ; rostrum depressum planum, cum capite haud 
conti 
tenn 
articulis basalibus 2 quam sequentes robustioribus (2? quam 
1™ paullo longiori), 2?—5? longitudine sat sequalibus, 6°—8° 
paullo brevioribus, 9? quam 8™ paullo longiori sed parum 
latiori, 10° 11° que clavam formantibus quam 9" duplo 
latioribus, 10° vix 11° haud transv versis, 11° obeonico; oculi 
antice fortiter angustatus, carina nnper basi sat a 
proximata bene definita leviter antrorsum arcuata in pro- 
thoracis lateribus fere ad medium producta ; scutellum 
rvum; elytra convexa, insqualia, striata; coxe antice 
