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idee (at any pue of all the Australian ones, and all other 
know me). In respect of other characters not likely to be 
STRENEODERMA (gen. nov. Anthribidarum). 
Caput transversum ; ; rostrum Kin Mim supra sat planum, ad 
apicem truncatum, ad basin quam caput haud sista, 
scrobibus tovelfghiut bi Oben sübméntum planatum pro- 
funde triangulariter emarginatum antenne graciles, arti- 
culis basalibus 2 quam sequentes Kiütloribi (2° breviori) 
articulis 3*— 8^ gradatim brevioribus, 9°—11° clavam dis- 
tinctam formantibus, hac laxe articulata ; oculi teens fere 
integri, sat convexi, minus fortiter granulati ; prothorax 
fortiter transversus, transversim fortiter convexus, carina 
"uq nulla, carina basali ad latera angulata et antror- 
m ad latera media producta; scutellum parvum ; elytra 
sat t bres: striata, gito subverticalia ; coxæ anticæ inter 
se latissime remotæ ; es modici, anticis quam ceteri 
longioribus; tarsorum anticorum articu basalis qu 
ceteri conjuncti parum (pditéHorMi multo) 1 brevior, 3? in 2° 
inserto ; unguiculi subtus dente parvo armati; metasternum 
breve; pygidium manifestum, subquadratum. 
According to M. Lacordaire's set guter the small hribides 
basal, rostrum of subparallel form, body uot elongate-eylindrie 
In that group it is distinguishable by the following characters :— 
Front coxæ very widely separated (more widely than in Phieobius dy 
rostrum truncate at its extremity, antenne and legs extremely 
like those of Areocerus. The outline of the prothorax and elytra 
is in unlike that of Ceutorrhynchus. I am uncertain as to the 
x of the examples before me. The front margin of ioc eye 
itself forms the hind wall of the scrobe. 
S. planatum, 5h nov. Piceum vix rufescens, eere — 
excepta) et tarsorum apice testaceis; sat opacum 
