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the antennz is altogether as in a typical Areocerus in being 
slightly nearer to the middle line of the t pA rostrum than 
is the inner margin of the eye. The s ns before me are 
females. Their antennal club is short and ace stout. 
S. Australia; Eyre’s Peninsula. 
ARJEOCERODES (gen. nov. Anthribidarum). 
Caput transversum ; rostrum transversum, supra sat lanum, ad 
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scrobibus ut Ar@oceri ; antenn® prothoracis basin paullo 
oblongo-ovales haud (vel vix) emarginati, grossissime granu- 
lati ; prothor. orax transversus, equalis, antice modice angus- 
tatus, carina antebasali nulla; carina basalis ad latera 
angulata et antrorsum brevissime producta ; scutellum 
angustum ; elytra convexa, sequalia, striata, atriis fortiter 
nec crebre punctulatis ; coxs antice sat con tigus ; ; es 
modici, anticis quam ceteri longioribus; tarsi modici, 
articulo 3° in 2* profunde inserto ; unguiculi subtus dentati. 
tete d near to Areocerus, but of evidently more cylindric 
with narrow, elongate, very coarsely granu eyes 
The lerari is the smallest Anthribid that I have see 
lilliputanus, sp. nov. Pallide testaceus, ie clava 
obscura; pube albido-testacea vestitus, hac in elytris trifa- 
B. 
granulatis ; prothoracis ge posticis Preis. visis) re- 
rorsum acutis. ong., l (vix); lat., 
e xcessively minute ill at once distinguish 
this insect from all the previously described Aus n 
Anthribi 
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 Lefèvre’s descriptions 
that I can feel no doubt of their yuji But I think the 
genus is not ge; tly placed next to Zdus it seems to me very 
much closer to Colaspoides, of which it genet reproduces ud 
prosternal Panne. M. vre in characterises t 
LH 
Edusite inter alia ‚by the phrase “prosternum oblongum E = 
yet places Cleptor in that group in spite of his diagnosis of its 
