528 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID^, 



species, but the ridges separating the punctures much more pro- 

 nounced. Elytra about twice the length of prothorax; very- 

 irregular about middle where the 3rd and 5th interstices (although 

 raised above their fellows) scarcely attain the general level; sides 

 and liase with numerous small granules, less numerous but rather 

 larger towards apex, and entirely absent in middle. Femora feebly 

 grooved and edentate, posterior strongly compressed. Length Gj, 

 rostrum \\\ width 3i mm. 



Hab. — Q. : Wide Bay (Macleay and Sydney Museums). 



Closer to P. leonimis than to anj' other species here described. 



PsEPHoLAX Pascoei, OIL; P.L.S.N.S.W. 1887, p. 1008. Hab.— 

 Norfolk Island. 



I have not a specimen of this species under examination, but 

 when looking at the type some time ago I noticed that it was 

 allied to latirostris, but differed in the alternate interstices of the 

 elytra. 



Genus H Y B o M o R P H u s, Saunders and Jekel. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1855, p. 301; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. vii. 

 p. Ul. 



Head small, almost concealed by prothorax; ocular fovea small, 

 deep. Eyes small, subovate, not very finely faceted, distant. 

 Rostrum long, thin, slightly curved, sides very feebly incurved to 

 middle. Antennce slender; scape inserted nearer apex than base 

 of rostrum and passing apex, almost the length of funicle and 

 club combined; two basal joints of funicle elongate; club small, 

 oblong-ovate. Prothorax convex, transverse, sides and base 

 rounded, ocular lobes obsolete; junction of pronotum and proster- 

 num ridge-like. Scutellum absent. Elytra scarcely longer than 

 wide, base widely and semicircularly emarginate and slightly 

 wider than prothorax, rounded from near base to apex, each side 

 with a distinct epipleural fold. Pectoral canal wide in front, 

 narrow and deep between anterior coxas and terminated between 

 the intermediate, walls rounded in front of anterior coxae, and not 

 at all precipitous or keeled. Mesosternal receptacle slightly 

 transverse, sidesslightly raised above metasternum, middle open and 



