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MR. F, P. PASCOE ON THE CTTRCTTLIOflTDiE. 



Zeopus. 



(Haplonychinae.) 



Haplonyclio et Aolli affinis ; ab illo facile distinguitur funiculo 6- 

 articulato, et tarsis 3-articulatis ; ab boc rostro elongato, ar- 

 cuato ; scrobibus postmedianis ; funiculo articulis ultimis ob- 

 conicis, distincte articulatis. 



In Haplonyx and Aolles the rostrum is robust, straight or 

 feebly curved, and the last three or four joints of the funicle are 

 transverse and not very distinct from one another and from the 

 club ; from Aolles, to which this genus is more closely allied, from 

 the absence of the claw-joint, the long curved rostrum with its 

 postmedian scrobes will readily differentiate it. The species 

 here described bears some resemblance to a Storeus. 



Zeopus storeoides. Z. breviter ovatus, raodice convexus, rufo- 

 brunneus, supra squamis silaceis, infra pedibusque griseis, sejimctim 

 vestitus ; capite modice exserto; rostro tenuato, fere longitudinis 

 elytrorum, cylindrico, apicem versus subpiceo, sat vage pimctulato ; 

 antennis ferrugineis, sparse squamulosis ; scapo ab oculo sat longe 

 terminato ; funiculo articulo basali secundo duplo longiore, hoc tertio 

 sesquilongiore, caeteris obconicis ; clava distincta, ovali ; prothorace 

 longitudine duplo latiore, apice haud tubulato ; scutello subcordi- 

 formi ; elytris basi prothorace vix latioribus, striato-punctatis ; dente 

 femorali tenuato, longiusculo ; tibiis, posticis exceptis, intus in medio 

 angulatis. Long. 1^ lin. 



Hab. South Australia. 



Acicnemis pardalis. A. elongato-ovalis, nigra, variegatim griseo- 

 squamulosa; rostro prothorace triplo longiore, ferrugineo, sub- 

 tiliter punctulato ; antennis ferrugineis; scapo antemediano; funi- 

 culo articulo secundo primo duplo longiore, caeteris primo longi- 

 oribus, obconicis ; clava elongata ; prothorace vix oblongo, in 

 medio gibboso-convexo et esquamoso, lateribus sparse granulato ; 

 scutello scutiformi; elytris elongato-cordatis, striato-punctatis, inter- 

 stitiis convexis, remote nitide granulatis, circa scutellum macula 

 media triangulari, aiiisque minoribus dispersis nigris, notatis ; corpore 

 infra pedibusque griseo-squamulosis, plagis nudis variis ; tibiis elon- 

 gatis, in medio annulatis. Long. 3| lin. 



Hab. Java; Batchian. 



Lacordaire was the first to characterize Acicnemis, in his 

 ' Genera/ although its only representative up to that time had 

 been previously described specifically by M. Eairmaire. This 

 species (A. variegata, from Tahiti) is, according to M. Lacor- 



