264 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID.i:, 



Lyb^ba majorina, n.sp. 



Red; coxse and club darker; metasternum and abdomen darker 

 or not. Upper surface clothed with scales of a dingy yellow 

 variegated with spots of paler yellow. Under surface and legs 

 with pale yellowish scales. 



Rostrum long, shining, very feebly diminishing in width from 

 base to apex; coarsely punctate only at extreme base and in latoral 

 grooves; without distinct median ridge. Scape inserted two- 

 fifths from apex of rostrum, the length of six basal joints of 

 funicle. Protliorax moderately transverse, apex about half the 

 width of base, base almost truncate; densely punctate, punctures 

 partially concealed. Scutelliim small, round, punctate. Elytra 

 subcordate, base almost straight, shoulders somewhat rounded; 

 punctate-striate, punctures moderatel}' round ; interstices wide 

 and flat, not much more than twice the width of striae. Meso- 

 sternal plate not depressed. Basal segment of abdomen not 

 depressed, slightly longer than metasternum and shorter than 

 2nd-3rd combined; intermediates large, straight, their combined 

 length noticeably more than that of 2nd or 5th. Femora grooved 

 and all (but especially the posterior) acutely dentate; tibije com- 

 pressed and rather strongly arched at base. Lsngth 4, rostrum 

 1^; width 2 mm. 



Hah. — S. Australia (Macleay Museum), Eyre's Peninsula (Rev. 

 T. Blackburn, No. 692). 



I have three specimens under examination, but can detect no 

 sexual variation in them; they are probably 9- The difference in 

 intensity of colour of the scales on the upper surface is not very 

 pronounced, but owing to their arrangement the spots (especially 

 on the elytra) are distinct; on the head they are uniform in 

 colour and are continued on to the basal third of rostrum and 

 slightly longer at the sides. 



Lyb^ba saniosa, Pasc; I.e. No. 5155. 

 {Enide saniosa, Pasc.) 



Hah. — " Fremantle " (Pascoe). I do not think that I have 

 geen this species. The description of its clothing would almost 



