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MR. F. P. PASCOE ON TIIE OURCTJLlONIDyE. 



ovata. Pedes mediocres ; femora parum incrassata, infra den- 

 tata ; tibia intus bisinuatse, apice unco transverso annates ; 

 tarsi normales ; unguiculi divergentes ; coxa anticae contiguae, 

 intermedia3 approximatae. Pectus breve, antice emarginatum. 

 Abdomen segmentis 3-4 conjunetim secundo longioribus ; sutura 

 prima recta. 



A somewhat isolated form, which, in the Australian fauna, may- 

 be placed between Alphitopis and Orthorhinus, the rostrum, inter 

 alia, differentiating it from both. The scales are peculiar, being 

 deeply divided into six or seven hair-like branches; each of 

 those on the prothorax arises from a puncture and is directed for- 

 wards ; on the elytra they are very densely crowded together in 

 lines. 



Cycotida lineata. (PI. XII. fig. 6.) C. angusta, oblonga, nigra, 

 omnino squamulis divisis niveis vestita; rostro nitido, lateribus 

 utrinque irregulariter punctato, in medio longitudinaliter laevigata ; 

 antennis nitide nigris, clava opaca, tomentosa ; prothorace basi quam 

 apice angustiore, in medio linea nitida longitudinali notato, sat con- 

 fertim punctato, punctis unisquamigeris ; elytris lineis dense niveo- 

 squamosis, alternis angustioribus nudis nitidis ornatis; unguiculis 

 nudis, piceis. Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. West Australia (Champion Bay). 



Nemestea. 

 (Erirhininaa.) 



Rostrum mediocre, arcuatum, quadrangulare, a capite discreturn, 

 utrinque supra scrobes longitudinaliter excavatum ; scrobes 

 prsernedianse, obliquae, infra oculos desinentes. Oculi rotundati, 

 laterales. Scopus arcuatus, sensim incrassatus ; funiculus elon- 

 gatus, articulo primo duobus sequentibus conjunetim longiore, 

 3-7 obconicis ; clava distincta, oblongo-ovata. Prothorax ro- 

 tundatus, lobis ocularibus latis. Scutellum elevatum, subrotun- 

 datum. Elytra prothorace latiora, oblongo-cordiformia, humeris 

 productis. Pedes mediocres, antici majores ; femora incrassata, 

 mutica ; tibia arcuatae, intus denticulatae, apice inermes ; tarsi 

 normales, sed articulo ultimo elongato ; unguiculi liberi, ap- 

 proximate Metasternum elongatum. Abdomen segmentis 

 3-4 brevibus. 



The rostrum in this genus is quadrangular (i. e. in transverse 

 section) nearly to the tip, and the angles are particularly promi- 

 nent : this structure is foreign to the Erirhininae ; and Lacordaire 



