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Moreton Bay. The male smaller and narrower than indicated by the dimensions 

 here given. 



Ciletectetorus, Schonherr. 



C. spinipennis, a new species. Length 4 lines ; width If line. Black, clothed 

 with brownish scales : thorax with a short mesial keel, and two longitudinal and 

 slightly elevated crests on the fore part, diverging slightly as they extend backwards 

 towards the middle of the thorax ; elytra punctate-striated, with a transverse black 

 band behind the middle, and which does not extend to the outer margins ; an oblong 

 black spot between this and the base, a small tubercle towards the apex, clothed with 

 pale brown scales, and minute black markings ; apex produced at the suture into a 

 sharp spine, and some acute denticles external to this spine. Hab. Australia. 



Sympiezocelus, a new genus of the Cryptorhynchidce — first division : founded 

 upon an insect which in general form reminds one of the species of Tranes or 

 Iphipus. 



S. Spencei is of a glossy, pitchy-black colour, destitute of scales : rostrum short, 

 rather slender and depressed, dilated at the base ; antennal groove in form of an ob- 

 long fovea, situated immediately in front of the eye ; antennae with the basal joint 

 (or scape) very short and almost obconic; first and second joints of funiculus obconic, 

 the rest short ; club of a very short oval form, almost round : thorax emarginated on 

 each side behind the eye, constricted in front, the sides very little rounded, upper sur- 

 face but little convex, with scattered punctures, and a very short keel behind : elytra 

 very little broader than the thorax, oblong, rounded at the apex, strongly punctato- 

 striated: legs short, femora large and compressed ; tibiae broad and compressed, den- 

 tated externally near the apex, and with a large incurved claw at the apex ; tarsi 

 small, not dilated : the two basal joints destitute of spongy substance beneath. Hab. 

 Richmond River, Australia. 



Hybophortjs, a new genus of the Cryptorhynchida — second division : the rostral 

 groove not acutely margined behind : founded upon an insect having the general form 

 nearly similar to certain species of Centrinus, such as C. morio : the thorax short, 

 narrow before, and broad behind; the elytra much broader than the thorax at the base, 

 With the shoulders prominent, but rounded, the width gradually decreasing to the 

 apex, which is rounded ; nearest to Rhyssomatus in affinity, but differs in having sim- 

 ple diverging claws (those in Rhyssomatus being bifid), and in having the humeral 

 angles of the elytra prominent : rostrum long, sub-carinated ; antennae with two basal 

 joints of funiculus longish obconic, the rest short ; eyes large, much approximated in 

 front : thorax constricted in front, then dilated with a rounded outline, with a much 

 elevated keel on the fore part. 



Hybophorus rufo-tuberosus ; black ; without scales ; thorax with a transverse row 

 of large punctures in front, interrupted by the large central keel, and some coarse 

 punctures on either side ; elytra with the region of the suture smooth, and in the 

 place of the first stria, with widely separated depressions, each bearing in the centre 

 a small glossy black granule, the remaining parts very uneven, with irregular and 

 obtuse tubercles, the crowns of which are red, the interspaces having scattered black 

 granules ; of the tubercles one at the shoulder is very large, and the same may be 

 said of a second, which is placed about midway between the base and apex of the 



