216 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID^E, 



strongly dentate, posterior passing apex of elytra. Length 5^^, 

 rostrum 1§; width 3 mm. 



Hah. — Coastal Districts of Queensland and Northern Xew 

 South Wales. 



A moderately common species. The male has a shorter and 

 stouter rostrum than the female, and the antennae are inserted 

 slightly nearer the apex. The elytra about the scutellum and 

 shoulders are not tuberculate. Mr. Pascoe appears to have 

 regarded the frontal impressions as rather an unusual character; 

 they are, however, noticeable in all the species of Faleticics and 

 many allied genera. 



Paleticus cordipennis, Pasc; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 5487. 

 (Petosiris cordipennis, Pasc). 



Colour as in pedestris. Pv,ather densely clothed with small 

 ferruginous-brown scales, larger and fasciculate on tubercles. 

 Legs with longer scales; head and basal third of rostrum densely 

 squamose. 



Head with three feeble elevations, a transverse impression 

 between eyes. Rostrum long, feebly incurved to middle, base 

 tricostate, apical half feebly punctate and shining. Second joint 

 of funicle about once and one-half the length of 1st. Prothorax 

 strongly transverse, convex, basal two-thirds scarcely parallel ; 

 four very feeble tubercles placed transversely across middle. 

 Scutellum distinct, transverse, level with elytra. Elytra briefly 

 subcordate, much wider than prothorax, each feebly separately 

 rounded at apex, subseriately punctate, punctures large near base, 

 base near scutellum slightly thickened, shoulders produced; each 

 with five tubercles on basal half, two on the 3rd, two on the 5th, 

 and one projecting laterally on the Tth just behind the shoulders, 

 several other feeble tubercles towards sides. Legs long; femora 

 subclavate, posterior just passing apex of elytra. Length 7, 

 rostrum 2; width 4 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland; New South Wales. 



The laterally projecting tubercle just behind the shoulder is 

 very distinctive of this species. 



