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4ninus perspicue cinereo-pubescens; supra confertim sub- 
tilissime (haud multo aliter quam Areocerus Vip eem 
De Geer) subaspere punctulatum ; rostro cum capite co 
tinuo; prothorace vage inequali; elytris striatis, in gatio 
paullo superantibus, clava ing articuli 4"*—8** conjuncti 
iori i 10° manifeste) transverso 
11° obconico quam latiori jott longiori. Long, 141; 
lat, $Ll (vix). 
There are indications on the specimen before me v the whitish 
‘hair-like scales on the upper surface having been in places con- 
.densed into somewhat conspicuous blotches which are chiefl 
-about the middle of the front of the prothorax, on the scutellum 
"behind the middle is a distinct transverse ae "The 
-of the structure of Ar@ocerus but with tha rostrum and scrobes 
.of a true Anthribid. 
Victoria 
S. contemptum, sp. nov. Fere ut preced (S. onem etd 
coloratum et pubescens sed abi dilutioribus et elytris 
apicem rufis; rostro cum capite continuo ; rote 
quali, lateribus mox ante basin manifeste sinuatis, angulis 
vexis, interstitiis vix perspicue tuberculatis; antennis pro- 
thoraeis basin attingentibus, clava quam articuli 3%—8" con- 
juneti vix breviori, articulis 9°—11° elongatis im quam 
9° et 11™ manifeste breviori. Long., 14 L; lat., + 1. (vix). 
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ance, but is certainly distinct. The pronotum is devoid of 
ined uilicieg and the elytra have no longitudinal Ha eig on the 
‘sutural region, their interstices also being all but devoid of 
_inzequalities. The sides of the rothorax are de strongly 
-incurved just in front of the base, and the hind angles of that 
