410 THE ENTOMOLOGICAL FAUNA OF NAURU ISLAND. 



latter being the favourite food of the larva. It is known as the 

 "Cadelle" in France. Both the beetle and its curious larva were 

 figured by me in the Agricultural Gazette of N. S. Wales (Octo- 

 ber, 1898) from specimens obtained in wheat in Sydney. 



Otiorrhynchus sp. 



The genus to which this weevil belongs, is a very large one, 

 containing a great number of diflferent species. Mr. J. J. 

 Walker examined the collections in the Hope Museum, at 

 Oxford, without finding anything like it. He then sent it to 

 Mr. Gahan, of the British Museum, and afterwards wrote. — 

 " Neither Mr. Gahan nor I could find anything, even generically 

 near it, in the large series of these found at the Museum; and it 

 is probably something quite new. I do not remember anything 

 like it in the Australian beetle-fauna." Mr. Lea says, "*This is 

 close to several European species of OtiorrhyncMi^s in my 

 collection, but I have nothing exactly like it." 



It measures ^ inch in length, and is of a general shining 

 greyish-brown tint, with reddish legs and antennae; clothed with 

 fine white pubescence. The head from above the eyes to the 

 jaws is finely punctured; thorax finely but irregularly punctured; 

 elytra marked with fine, parallel striae, with the edge of the 

 elytra produced into fine serrate spines along the outer edge, 

 but absent at the extreme tip. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



Fam. F R M I c I D ^ . 



Only one species, a very small red ant, was obtained; about 

 twenty examples were received, without any information about 

 its habits. Specimens were sent to Dr. A. Forel, who has 

 described it as a new species, Prenolepis{N'ylandey'ia) Steeli 

 Forel, " Formicides Australiens regus de MM. Froggatt et 

 Rowland Turner." Revue Suisse Zool.: Ann. Soc. Zool. 

 Suisse et du Mus. d' Hist. Nat. de Geneve. Tome xviii., fasc.l, 

 p.69, 1910. 



