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than broad; scuteUum punctiform ; elytra without bristles, the s. 
uniform throughout ; legs reddish ferruginous with grey scales. 
Sal. Gawler. Length, 2 line 
EPHEEINA. ■ 
EostTum longer than the head, and nearly as broad, increasi,! 
little towards the apex, which is emarginate, three raised lines ab. 
each of he two lateral lines terminating in the raised edge round, 
scrobe, the middle line extending to the apex; scrobes commenciM 
the apex, extending backwards and gradually disappearing near , 
eyes Antenna very long, scape clavate, extending to the ely, 
rt- Jt"!'^' '^' ^''' J°^* ^°°^^^*' *^^ «^^°^^ *-<^e as Ion, 
the third, the latter equal with the remainder ; club ovate, peduncul 
Prothorax equal in length and breadth, the sides rounded Eh 
narrowly ovate. Legs moderately long; femora thickened in the mid. 
anterior tibi^ straight, with the inner edge sinuate ; tarsi rather Id 
the penultimatejoint (fig. 2a) broadly lobed. Metasternum lone. Ab 
men as m the preceding. ^ 
The above definition will probably require some modification 
the event of other species being discovered ; but the general characfc 
of the rostrum and scrobes show that the genus is very distinct. 
Epherina longicornis. (fig. 2.) 
E]ongate,black, covered with dull greyish scales; antenna extern 
to the end of the elytra ; prothorax apparently constricted at the ' 
and apex, which are of equal breadth ; scutellum nearly semi-circu 
elytra nearly twice the breadthoftheprothoraxat the base, theante 
tm^ 1 «f the sides nearly parallel, then gradually rounded b. 
h tie produc d at the apices, the interstices of the stri. with a line 
whitish bristles ; legs dark ferruginous, with greyish scales. 
Hah. Champion Bay. l^ength, 2i Hues 
Mtlt,oceefs, 
SehoBherr, D«p., Cure. Meth., p. 178 , laeordaire, Gen., vi, p. aiji 
SchoDherr gives a. one of the essential characters of this gen, 
thora. j,mice hisinuatm," but a few species have been admitted in 
.t havmg the base of the prothorax truncate. The character is ho, 
ever so persistent in a large number of species, that it appears to n 
to be desirable to exclude all those in which it does nofexist. Tl 
speces of th,s genus are numerous; three are found on the horde. 
