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daire, aberrant, his formula being drawn up from five or six otbers 

 coming from Java, India, and Ceylon*. Mr. Wallace found spe- 

 cies in most of tbe islands he visited, from New Guinea to Singa- 

 pore ; and I have another from so far north as Japan. None have 

 been found in Australia. A few only are here described. It is 

 scarcely necessary to observe that the length of the rostrum varies 

 more or less according to sex, and that an approximation is all 

 that is attempted in the descriptions. 



Acicnemis subsign ata. A. praecedenti affinis, sed minus variegata; 

 rostro quam capite prothoraceque conjunctis vix longiore ; articulis 

 funiculi multo brevioribus ; prothorace omnino griseo, squamulis 

 minus imbricatis, antice multo angustiore ; ely tris subparallelis, gra- 

 nulis vix nitidis, et, praesertim, tibiis brevibus. Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Madras. 



Acicnemis peduncularis. A. oblongo-ovata, nigra, umbrino-squa- 

 mosa, utrinque lineis duabus obliquis, alteraque pone medium elytro- 

 rum dense albo-squamosis ; rostro quam dimidio corporis vix longiore, 

 apice excepto, fortiter lineatim punctato ; antennis ferrugineis ; funi- 

 culi articulo secundo primo vix longiore, tertio obconico, caeteris mo- 

 niliformibus, ultimo longiore ; clava breviter ovata, basi fortiter pedun- 

 culata ; prothorace oblongo-subconico, sat crebre profunde punctato, 

 punctis squamositate repletis, utrinque albido-lineato ; scutello tri- 

 angulari ; elytris cordato-trigonatis, seriatim foveatis, interstitiis po- 

 stice elevatis, humeris lateribusque albo-lineatis, pone medium linea 

 transversa, aliquando ad suturam interrupta, notatis ; corpore infra 

 pedibusque dense umbrino-squamosis, setulis albidis adsperso ; tibiis 

 posticis elongatis, intus obsolete bisinuatis. Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Singapore ; Sarawak ; Java. 



The shortly ovate club abruptly pedunculate at the base is 

 strongly characteristic of this species. 



Acicnemis frenata. A. elliptica, nigra, umbrino-squamosa, utrin- 

 que lineis duabus albidis pone medium elytrorum currentibus ornata ; 

 rostro dimidio corporis haud longiore, ferrugineo, triente basali fortiter 

 lineatim punctato, reliquo laevigata ; antennis ferrugineis ; funiculi 

 articulo primo longiore, 3.-6. moniliformibus, /. ovato, tomentoso, 

 duobus praccedentibus conjunctim longitudine aequali ; clava elongato- 

 attenuata ; oculis modice approximatis ; prothorace oblongo, subco- 

 nico ; scutello nudo, cordato ; elytris cordato-trigonatis, striato-pun- 

 ctatis, interstitiis planatis, singulis in medio macula semilunari nigra, 

 postice albo-marginata, notatis ; corpore infra squamis griseis sejun- 

 * M. Lacordaire has omitted to state that the scrobes are confluent beneath, 



although in some species there is a slightly elevated line between, not, however, 



really separating them. 



