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would probably have instituted a " groupe " for its reception. In 

 its habit, I think, the genus approximates unmistakably to Aoploc- 

 nemis. There are apparently three species, differing principally in 

 outline ; but one of them is somewhat intermediate ; so, for the 

 present, I regard them as belonging to one variable form. 



Nemestra incerta. (PL XII. fig .5.) N. rufo-ferruginea vel nigra, 

 albo- cervino- vel subaureo-squaniosa ; capite rostrique dimidio basali 

 crebre punctatis, puncto singulo squama alba repleto, hoc basi tri- 

 angulariter excavato, dimidio apicali minus punctato ; antennis ferru- 

 gineis, griseo-pilosis ; prothorace utrinque ampliato-rotundato, vel 

 vix ampliato, dorso valde vel modice convexo, crebre punetato, inter 

 puncta plus minusve granulato, medio lateribusque basi subaureo- 

 squamoso ; elytris prothorace multo latioribus, humeris valde productis, 

 obliquis, sulcato-punctatis, interstitiis granulis depressis sat remote 

 uniseriatim instructis, marginibus exterioribus densissime albo-squa- 

 mosis; corpore infra dense argenteo-squamoso ; pedibus minii3 

 squamosis. Long. 2-|— 3^ lin. 



Hab. West Australia (Fremantle). 



Nedyleda. 

 (Erirhinina3.) 



Dorytomo affinis, sed tibia antics rectse, apice inermes ; coxce po- 

 sticae distantes ; et processus intercoxalis late truncatus. 



I follow Lacordaire in separating Dorytovnus, Steph., from Eri- 

 rhinus, Sch5n., principally on account of the absence of ocular lobes; 

 and probably division will have to be carried still further, even for 

 the European species. To the above characters it may be added 

 that the eye is unusually narrow and distant about its own breadth 

 from the prothorax, finely facetted, and the claws are approximate. 



Nedyleda semiusta. (PI. XII. fig. 9.) N. nigra, elytris, basi ex- 

 ceptis, nitide fulvo-ferrugineis ; rostro prothorace breviore, fulvo- 

 ferrugineo, basi uigro ; oculis anguste ovatis, a prothorace modice di- 

 stantibus ; antennis fulvo-ferrugineis, clava nigra ; funiculo articulo 

 basali valido, secundo breviter obconico, cajteris transversis; protho- 

 race transverso, crebre punctato, subalbido-squamoso ; elytris late 

 ovatis, seriatim punctatis, interstitiis latis, planatis : corpore infra 

 nigro, sat dense argenteo-squamoso ; femoribus, apice exceptis, nigris, 

 tibiis tarsisque fulvo-ferrugineis, parce albo-pilosis. Long. 1* lin. 



Hab. West Australia. 



This and most of the species from West Australia described in 

 this paper were collected by Mr. Duboulay of Champion Bay. 



