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middle. Femora densely punctate ; posterior extending to 

 apical segment. Length, 4f mm. • rostrum, 1 mm. (vix.) ; 

 width, 2 mm. (vix.). 



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



In appearance close to the preceding species, but at 

 once distinguished by the prothorax being as long as wide, 

 and by the tarsi. The antennae, except the apical joints of 

 the club, are glabrous and polished. The median prothoracic 

 carina is sufficiently distinct; in the preceding species it is 

 much shorter and traceable with difficulty. Where the elytral 

 clothing has been removed the interstices are seen to be narrow 

 and waved, although they are evidently regular throughout. 



Notocalviceps, n. g. 



Head of moderate size, not concealed ; forehead strongly 

 quadrisinuate ; bald and highly polished except between eyes. 

 Eyes large, ovate, rather widely separated, finely faceted. 

 Kostrum long, thin, and curved, each side with a rather deep 

 groove above the scrobe. Antennas rather thin ; scape inserted 

 nearer apex than base of rostrum, the length of funicle; two 

 basal joints of funicle elongate; club elongate-ovate, its joints 

 oblique. Prothorax transverse, sides rounded, base bisinuate, 

 constriction feeble but continued across summit; ocular lobes 

 obtusely rounded. Scutellum transversely oblong, distinct. 

 Elytra much wider than prothorax, base lightly trisinuate. 

 Pectoral canal deep and narrow, terminated between inter- 

 mediate coxae. Mesosternal receptacle feebly raised, U-shaped, 

 walls equal throughout; cavernous. Metasternum slightly 

 but noticeably shorter than the following segment; episterna 

 distinct throughout. Abdomen moderately large, sutures 

 deep; first segment not as long as second and third combined, 

 its suture with second curved, intercoxal process rather narrow ; 

 third and fourth rather large, their combined length consider- 

 ably more than that of second or fifth. Legs long and rather 

 thin ; posterior coxae not touching elytra ; femora dentate, not 

 grooved, posterior passing elytra or not; tibiae feebly com- 

 pressed, almost straight ; tarsi thin, first and fourth joints 

 equal in length, third moderately wide and deeply bilobed; 

 claws long and very thin. Subovate, convex, squamose, 

 punctate, nontuberculate, apterous. 



Allied, but not very closely so, to Methidrysis; indeed, 

 but for the sinuation of the forehead, I should have imagined 

 it as being widely removed from Paleticus. There are a number 

 of species, belonging to allied genera, in which the hinder 

 part of the head is more or less shining, but in the two species 



