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The genus JBlepiarda was described from a male specimen from 

 Cape York. The female differs in the insertion of the antenna? 

 being in the middle of the rostrum and in the shorter scape. The 

 above two species depart from the type in having the two basal 

 joints of the funicle of equal length ; they are also not nearly so 

 broad ; another species is described from the Fiji Islands. The 

 following species is not so strikingly homogeneous as its conge- 

 ners, owing to its colour, its narrower outline, the prothorax not 

 being depressed above, and the elytra being less convex pos- 

 teriorly. 



Blepiarda neophyta. B. angustior, sat dense albido-squamosa, pal- 

 lide fuscescenti-maculata ; rostro apicem versus sensim angustiore ( $ ), 

 ferrugineo, nitido, subtiliter vage punctulato ; antennis pallidioribus, 

 funiculo articulo secundo quam primo paulo breviore, clava quam fu- 

 niculo longiore ; prothorace insequali, ad latera vage punctata, punctis 

 squama ampla repletis, tuberculis parvis sex munito, 2 apicalibus, 4 

 in medio transversim sitis ; scutello oblongo ; ely tris striato-punc- 

 tatis, punctis unisquamigeris, interstitiis tertio quintoque tuberculatis, 

 tuberculis fuscescentibus, singulatim plaga alba prseapicali notatis ; 

 cor pore infra nigro, nitido, squamulis pallidis irroratis. Long. 

 3\ lin. 



Hab. Dorey. 



Amalthtjs. 



( Cryptorhy nchinae.) 



$ Rostrum validum, arcuatum, apicem versus sat subito nectum ; 

 scrobes prsemediansD, obliquse, ad oculos desinentes. Oculi sub- 

 grosse granulati. Scapus subclavatus, oculum attingens ; fu- 

 niculus 7-articulatus, articulis duobus basalibus obconicis, longi- 

 tudine sequalibus, cseteris valde transversis : clava elongata, in- 

 articulata. Prothorax subconicus, antice tubulatus, apice pro- 

 ductus, basi bisinuatus, lobis ocularibus prominulis. Elytra 

 prothorace fortiter latiora, basi depressa, postice convexa, late- 

 ribus paulo rotundata. 'Femora sublinearia, antica validiora et 

 longiora, omnia dente parvo instructa; tibia subelongatae, 

 flexuosse; tarsi normales. Eima pectoralis profunda, pone 

 coxas anticas protensa, apice subfornicata. Metasternum elon- 

 gatum. Abdomen normale. 



The male of the handsome species described below is unknown, 

 but probably will be found to differ only in the more terminal 

 scrobes and the longer scape. The genus is allied to Blepiarda, 



