•210 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID.E, 



segment of abdomen; tibiae compressed, the four posterior strongly 

 curved, the posterior distinctly grooved, the others with punctures 

 in irregular rows but scarcely grooved; claw-joint feebly pubes- 

 cent, claws moderately separated. Length 7, rostrum 2J; width 

 3^ mm. 



//^«7j._"N'euholland" (Erichson) — Q.: Somerset (Mr. C. French), 

 Rockhampton (Mr. Horace W. Brown)— S. A. : Eyre's Peninsula 

 (Rev. T. Blackburn, No. 893)— N.S.W: (Mr. W. Kershaw, Senr.), 

 Tamworth (Lea). Numerous specimens were taken at night time 

 whilst they were crawling on the newly barked trunk of a 

 Eucalypt. 



In this species the elytral punctures are very coarse and 

 irregular; they appear at first sight to run in double row.s, but on 

 examination under a lens this doubling is very indistinct; the 

 interstices are narrow, extremely irregular, waved by punctures, 

 depressed in places, and their outline interrupted b}' granules. 

 The 2nd segment of abdomen has in (J one row of coarse punc- 

 tures in the middle; these are connected with the base by feeble 

 ridges; in the ^ the punctures are more numerous, smaller, and 

 in about three rows. 



Melanterius pokcatus, Erichs. ; Lc. No. 5399. 



Moderately broad, ovate, shining, somewhat depressed. Black; 

 two apical joints of tarsi and antenna? dull red. Prothorax with 

 a scarcely visible hair in each puncture, under surface and legs 

 with whitish short hairs, somewhat more distinct than those on 

 prothorax. 



Head densel}' punctate; eyes large, subtriangular, moderatel}- 

 close together, rather coarsely faceted; ocular fovea small, level 

 with bases of eyes. Rostrum long, thin, straight, in ^ almost 

 straight, in ^ parallel-sided except at base ; densely punctate at 

 base; 9 without carina; ^ with five carinje behind antennae, only 

 the median one sharply defined, the others being considerably 

 interrupted by punctures; sides abo\'e scrobes with a very shallow 

 narrow impression continued from eyes almost to extreme apex. 

 Antennae thin ; scape inserted about two-fifths from apex of 



