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silaceo-pubcscciis ; rostro brevi, recto, confertim oblongo-punctato ; 

 antennis rufo-testaceis, scapo longiore, in medio curvato; funiculo 

 articulo primo quam secundo paulo longiore j clava minuscula ; pro- 

 thorace crebre punctato, antice manifesto longitudinaliter lineatim 

 sulcato, lobo mediano lateribusque sat dense silaceo-pubcscentibus j 

 scutello transverso, utrinque rotundato ; elytris prothorace haud la- 

 tioribus, striato-punctatis, leviter rugoso-granulatis, dorso pube si- 

 lacea sat dense vestitis ; corpore infra pube grisea sat dense tecto ; 

 pedibus rufo-brunneis. Long. 3 lin. 

 Hab. South Australia (Adelaide). 



An oblong dark species, something like L. subsignatus, but 

 with longer elytra in proportion to the prothorax, and the figura- 

 tion nearly obsolete. 



L^emosaccus ustulus. L. suboblongus, niger; rostro brevi, recto, 

 confertim oblongo-punctato ; oculis prominulis ; antennis rufo- 

 testaceis ; scapo in medio curvato ; funiculo articulo primo valde 

 incrassato, secundo vix breviore ; clava majuscula ; prothorace cre- 

 berrime punctulato, apice tubulato, antice paulo excavato, lobo me- 

 diano lateribusque griseo-pubescentibus ; scutello subtransverso, gla- 

 bro ; elytris parum nitidis, striato-punctatis, interstitiis rugoso-gra- 

 nulatis, praesertim postice, regione scutellari sat dense griseo-pu- 

 bescentibus j corpore infra crebre punctato; tibiis aliquando sub- 

 ferrugineis. Long. If lin. 



Hab. Adelaide (Melbourne). 



A small nearly black species, in outline like L. notatus, but 

 with a short rostrum and very prominent round eyes. 



Alcides magister. (PI. IX. fig. 9.) A. oblongus, niger, ubi- 

 que dense albido-squamosus, fuscescente varius, granulisque parvis 

 depressis adspersus ; capite porrecto ; rostro prothorace sesquilon- 

 giore, paulo arcuato, pallide fuscescenti-squamoso ; funiculo articulo 

 secundo quam primo duplo longiore ; clava articulo basali obconico ; 

 oculis subrotundatis ; prothorace conico elytrisque basi saturate fu- 

 scescentibus, in medio carinulato ; scutello parvo, rotundato ; elytris 

 basi prothorace paulo latioribus, humeris rotundatis, lateribus sensini 

 angustioribus, striatis, interstitiis subconvexis ; corpore infra pedibus- 

 que squamis niveis interjectis ; tibiis intermediis et posticis in medio 

 intus haud angulatis. Long. 12 lin. 



Hab. Aru. 



One of the finest of the Curculionidae, and without any obvious 

 affinity to any known species. Alcides, of which I have above 

 ninety species, is full of isolated forms ; but the ordinary generic 

 characters are insufficiently supported by habit, and, without a 

 large number of new genera, could not be satisfactorily used in 



