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large, suboblong punctures, which are more or less concealed ; 

 interstices narrower than punctures, themselves lightly punc- 

 tate. Under- surf ace with dense, round, regular punctures. 

 Mesosternal receptacle not suddenly raised. Femora stout, 

 very feebly dentate. Length, 4J mm. ; rostrum, 1-J- mm. ; 

 width, 2J mm. 



Hab.—New South Wales: Forest Reefs (A. M. Lea). 



A short, broad species, closely allied to the preceding 

 one, from which it may be distinguished by its greater width, 

 denser clothing, much more irregular punctures of head, and 

 stouter and more coarsely punctured rostrum. 



Exithioides, n. g. 



Head large, feebly convex, partially concealed. Eyes 

 ovate, widely separated, coarsely faceted. Rostrum compara- 

 tively short and wide, feebly curved ; a shallow groove on 

 each side above the scrobe. Scape inserted nearer apex than 

 base of rostrum, the length of funicle ; two basal joints of 

 the latter elongate; club ovate, subcontinuous with funicle. 

 Prothorax subquadrate, constriction slight; ocular lobes 

 obtuse. Scutellum small. Elytra oblong-ovate. Pectoral 

 canal deep and wide, terminated immediately behind anterior 

 coxae. Mesosternal receptacle raised, almost as long as wide, 

 sides incurved to base, ridged along middle, emargination 

 widely transverse; cavernous. Metasternum rather short; 

 episterna not traceable. Abdomen moderately large, sutures 

 straight ; basal segment as long as the three following com- 

 bined, intercoxal process rather narrow ; third and fourth 

 depressed below, and their combined length slightly less than 

 that of second or fifth. Legs moderately long; posterior 

 coxae touching elytra ; femora feebly grooved, edentate, pos- 

 terior terminated before apex of abdomen ; tibiae lightly com- 

 pressed, almost straight; tarsi rather thick, third joint very 

 little wider than second and deeply bilobed, fourth rather 

 long and thin. Oblong-elliptic, convex, squamose, non- 

 tuberculate, winged. 



Allied to Exithius, but the abdominal sutures straight 

 and the body winged. 



Exithioides punctatus, n. sp. 

 Black, opaque, antennae and tarsi dull-red. Sparsely 

 (the legs moderately densely) clothed with sooty-brown 

 scales; base and posterior declivity of elytra with dense pale 

 scales ; under-surface with a few pale scales. Prothorax 

 with four very feeble fascicles, elytra with several feeble 

 fascicles and with four distinct (but still feeble) ones crown- 

 ing the summit of posterior declivity. 



