260 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONIDiE 



scales arranged in spots which are rather numerous on the elytra 

 and on the prothorax are usually five in number, one along 

 median line towards base (sometimes extending to apex) and two 

 on each side in front. Under surface and legs with whitish 

 scales sometimes tinged with yellow. 



Bostrum long and thin, moderately curved, scarcely visibly 

 diminishing in width (just visibly dilated between antennae) from 

 base to apex, acutely ridged to antennae; with elongate punctures 

 between antennje, smaller thence to apex. Scape inserted two- 

 fifths from apex of rostrum, slightly shorter than funicle. Pro- 

 thorax transverse, apex about half the width of base, base strongly 

 bisinuate ; densely punctate but punctures almost concealed. 

 Scutellum small, round, glabrous, punctate. Elytra subcordate, 

 considerably wider than prothora.x, shoulders square; punctate- 

 striate, punctures narrow and oblong ; interstices much wider 

 than striaj, 3rd, 5th and 7th triangularly ridged. Mesostcrual 

 plate widely transverse, feebly depressed. Metasternum and 

 basal segments of abdomen rather coarsely punctate; intermediates 

 straight, their combined length slightly more than that of 2nd or 

 5th. Femora stout, anterior feebly, the others acutely dentate; 

 tibiae rounded, feebly curved, dilated at apex. Length 2|,. 

 i^ostrum i; width 1^ mm. 



Hah. — \V,A. : Swan River. 



The colour of the derm is very valuable individually. The pale 

 scales on the prothorax are sometimes dingy and not at all 

 maculate in appearance ; sometimes the maculae are nine in 

 number. 



Lyb^ba famelica, n.sp. 



Black; elyti^a, legs, rostrum and antennae of a dingy reddish- 

 brown in (J ; in 2 the rostrum and antennae (club excepted) 

 are of a I'ather bright red. Almost uniformly clothed all over 

 with greyish scales, on the elytra and sometimes on prothorax 

 feebly speckled with sooty ones; head with two distinct sooty 

 spots; rostrum clothed half way to antennae in $, at extreme base 

 only in <^. 



