590 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



MELANDRYID^. 

 DiRCCEA QUADRIMACULATA, Lea.— Mr. Champion having pointed 

 out* that quadrimaculata had been previously used in Dircoca, I 

 propose to alter the name of my species to tetraspilota. 



CURCULIONID^. 



Subfamily CLEONIDES. 



LiXUS ALBOLINEATUS, n.sp. 



Black, feebly shining, antenna} reddish, club darker. Covered 

 with an ochreous dust, rather denser on under than on upper 

 surface. Rather densely clothed with whitish hair (more or less 

 obscured by dust) on rostrum, legs, and under surface; prothorax 

 with a distinct median line and the sides clothed, elytra with 

 interstices regularly clothed with white hair, but about suture 

 obscured by dust; three apical segments of abdomen (especially at 

 their sides) with longer and denser hair than elsewhere. 



Head and rostrum densely and regularly punctate, the former 

 with a small fovea between eyes ProtJwrax transverse,! sub- 

 conical, base bisinuate; with a distinct and rather deep median 

 line; densely and coarsely punctate, intervening spaces densely 

 punctate. Elytra about thrice the length of prothorax and wider 

 at base, shoulders rounded, sides feebly increasing to middle and 

 then decreasing to apex; striate-punctate, punctures rather large, 

 oblong, sepax-ated by narrow ridges; interstices feebly raised, the 

 alternate ones a little more distinctly so, a feeble callosity 

 terminating the 4tli-8th near apex. Under surface densely and 

 finely punctate. Length 10, rostrum 2; width 3| mm. 



Hah.^^ichmond River, N.S.W. 



Differs from Masters!, Pascoe, in the much coarser punctures 

 of prothorax, more distinct median line, more rounded elytra, 

 longer rostrum and different clothing. The elytral interstices 

 appear as white lines. I have two perfect specimens, one of 

 which is a little smaller than the type. 



* Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. Tome xlii. (1S98), p. 71. 

 t It appears to be slightly longer than wide, but measurements show- 

 that it is half a millimetre wider than long. 



