262 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID^, 



punctate, punctures round and clearly cut but almost concealed. 

 Scutellum small and round, punctures concealed. Elytra sub- 

 cordate, considerably wider than prothorax, base trisinuate ; 

 punctate-striate, punctures narrow and suboblong; interstices flat, 

 much wider than strife. Mesosternal plate strongly depressed. 

 Metasternum with a depression which is continued on to basal 

 sesment of abdomen, the latter almost the length of the three 

 following; intermediates combined slightly longer than 2nd or 5th; 

 3rd and 4th slightly embracing 4th and 5th at the sides. Femora 

 rather thinner than usual, rather distinctly grooved, edentate ; 

 tibite slightly compressed and almost straight. Length 4, rostrum 

 li; width 2 mm. 



Hah. — S. Australia (Macleay Museum). 



The sinuation of the base of the prothorax is accentuated by 

 darker scales. Near the suture the elytral interstices are about 

 four or five times the wddth of the stride, but tow^ards the sides 

 they are only about two or three times as wide. The specimen 

 described is probably $ despite the position of insertion of scape 

 and the absence of rostral ridges; a smaller and more brightly 

 coloured specimen (also from S. Australia and the Macleay 

 Museum), which I believe to be the 9) differs in having the 

 rostrum impunctate except at extreme base, and %vith the scape 

 inserted about one-third from base of rostrum and less than half 

 the lensrth of the funicle alone. 



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LvBiEBA MOLLIS, n.Sp. 



Red ; scutellum and under surface reddish-brown. Clothed 

 with round, dingy, sooty-grey or testaceous scales, ver}' slightly 

 variegated, but paler below than above. 



Rostrum long, curved and shining; incurved to middle, feebly 

 in (J, decidedly in 95 rather feebly punctate except at base and 

 sides in both sexes; ^ with an obscure median ridge on basal third. 

 Scape in ^ inserted slightly nearer apex than base of rostrum, in 

 9 vice versa; slightly shorter than funicle. Prothorax moderately 

 transverse, apex about half the wddth of base, base moderately 



