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female does not present the crenulations on the under side of the rostrum, and that 

 it differs further from the male, in having the anterior legs very little longer than the 

 others. This opinion is founded upon the fact that he possesses an insect presenting 

 these differences (and these only), when compared with Schonherr's description of 

 P. Slephensi. A second species is described, which differs from the insect referred to 

 in Mr. Waterhouse's collection, in having the thorax and elytra rather less humped, 

 and in having the second joint of the funiculus fully twice as long as the first. Its 

 length 7£ lines. Hab. Moreton Bay. It is named P. Schonherri. 



Pezichus, a new genus of the Cryptorhynchidce — first division : founded upon an 

 insect in which the structure of the antennae resembles that in Cylindrocorynus, ex- 

 cepting that these organs are rather longer and more slender. The legs are very long 

 and slender, the femora not clavate ; the tarsi very long and slender and with the first 

 joint nearly as long as the remaining three taken together ; thorax rather small ; 

 elytra moderate as to length, nearly twice as broad as the thorax. 



P. binotatus is 5| lines in length, and 2\ in breadth. Black, unequally clothed 

 with brown scales ; thorax granulated behind and at the sides, and keeled above ; 

 elytra punctato-striated, the punctures very widely separated, and each enclosing a 

 scale ; the second interstice keeled ; a small, oblique, dirty white mark on each elytron, 

 rather behind the middle : femora dentate. Hab. Moreton Bay. 



Glochinorhinus, a new genus of the Cryptorhynchidce — first division : body 

 nearly cylindrical, tubercular and squamose; funiculus with the terminal joint more 

 slender than the rest, and longer than several of the preceding joints. Male with a 

 recurved spine on each side of the rostrum in the middle, and a small spine behind 

 this. 



G. Doubledayi (Protopalus ? Doubledayi, JeckeVs MSS.) : black, clothed with ci- 

 nereous scales ; thorax granulated, and with a middle keel ; elytra irregularly punctato- 

 striate; the second interstice with three short crests, each appearing as if composed 

 of an aggregation of tubercles ; third interstice with one tubercle in the middle, 

 fourth with several small tubercles, and with a sub-apical group of four or five small 

 tubercles; legs long and slender, fore-legs the longest. Length 5£ lines; width 2^ 

 lines. Hiib. Moreton Bay. 



Protopterus, Scho. Four new species of this genus are described, and these are 

 placed in two sections. 



Section I. — The second joint of the funiculus much longer than the first. It 

 includes — 



P. Chevrolatii, which is of an elongate-ovate form, has the thorax attenuated and 

 two-pointed in front, and produced considerably beyond the head, with a short keel in 

 the middle of the dorsal surface, and an obtuse tubercle on each side of this keel : 

 small granules are scattered over the surface of the thorax and elytra ; the latter are 

 irregularly punctured, excepting at the sides, and each elytron has about nine obtuse 

 tubercles, three in the second interstice, three in the fourth, one in the sixth, and two 

 near the shoulder: the apex is produced into two conical tubercles, one belonging to 

 each elytron. General colour black, clothed with brown scales ; a band of greenish 



