530 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONIDiE, 



small, round, shallow punctures, not very close together but 

 remarkably regular. Elytra as wide as length of suture (1 Hmm.) 

 and but little shorter than greatest length (12| mm.); with 

 small feeble punctures and towards the sides feebly wrinkled ; 

 a moderately distinct subsutural stria, scarcely visibly striate 

 elsewhere; 5th interstice feebly raised from near base almost to 

 apex; epipleurai feebly wriftkled at base, dilated and more oblique 

 behind middle, from middle to near apex with two rows of 

 moderateh" distinct punctures. Under surface with somewhat 

 similar but larger punctures than those on prothorax, punctures 

 larger on basal segment of abdomen and coxte than elsewhere. 

 Length 17^, rostrum 5|; width 11 J mm. 



Hab. — Lord Howe Island. 



I am indebted to Mr. George Masters for the specimen described. 



Since the specimen described above was examined, I have 

 obtained a smaller specimen (15 mm.) from the Sydney Museum. 

 It difters in ha\ ing the elytral ridges less pronounced, the rostrum 

 more coarsely punctate, and in having a deep and large pear- (or 

 top-) shaped fovea on the under surface of the head immediately 

 behind the rostrum. In the larger specimen this fovea is entirely 

 absent, the convexity of that part of the head being uninterrupted. 



Genus Z E N e u d e s, Pascoe. 



Journ. Linn. 8oc. Zool. xii. 1873, p. 35. 



tiead rather small, convex, not concealed; ocular fovea small, 

 narrow. Etjes small, subreniform, tinely faceted, distant. 

 Rostrum rather long and stout, arched at base. Antennce stout; 

 scape short, searceh^ half the length of funicle, inserted slightly 

 nearer apex than base of rostrum, termination distant both from 

 eye and apex of rostrum; funicle stout, 1st joint as long as wide, 

 2nd wider and larger than first, the others strongly transverse; 

 club short, subconical. Prothorax subdepressed, apex produced 

 and narrow, behind it suliquadrate, base feebly bisinuatej 

 ocular lobes almost rectangular. Scutelkim small, subtriangular. 

 Elytra no wider than and scarcely twice the length of prothorax, 



