598 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



under surface from eye to apex of abdomen with a distinct stripe 

 of yellowish hair, middle rather feebly clothed. 



Head densely granulate. Rostrum comparatively short, notice- 

 ably curved, polished; basal half in ^ densely and rather strongly 

 punctate, apical half scarcely visibly punctate, in ^ feebly punc- 

 tured throughout. Antennae in ^ rather short, basal joint dis- 

 tinctly longer than 3rd, 2nd the length of 5th, 6th-10th slightly 

 increasing in width and somewhat flattened, 11th twice the 

 length of 10th.* Prothorax in ^ as long as wide, in ^ feebly 

 transverse, apex narrowly subtubular, sides rounded, increasing 

 to base, more noticeably so in ^ than in ^ ; densely granulate, 

 each granule slightly irregular; median line distinctly impressed. 

 Elytra very narrow, parallel-sided or very feebly decreasing to 

 near apex, each feebly separately rounded and not produced at 

 apex; feebl}^ depressed along suture, suture itself feebly raised; 

 densely, strongly and regularly punctate; not granulate. Femora 

 edentate, posterior not extending to apex of 1st abdominal 

 segment. Length 8, beyond abdomen i, rostrum IJ ; width 

 1^ mm. 



Hah. — Galston (Dumbrell and Lea), Gosford, N.S.W. (Lea). 



Of the shape and size of acicularis and parallelus, Pascoe, but 

 with clothing much as in suturalis, Boisduval. Compared Avibh 

 the latter species, tenuis differs in being much smaller and 

 narrower, rostrum shorter, elytra not produced, itc; from the two 

 former species it is abundantly distinct by its clothing. 



Var. TARSALis. — I have a male from Forest Reefs which in the 

 absence of other specimens I can only regard as a variety of the 

 above species; it differs in having the tarsi and antennse uniformly 

 piceous-black, the tibi;e much darker than the femora (in the 

 types the reverse is the case), and the clothing of the under sui-face 

 longer, looser and paler; the 11th antennal joint is almost the 

 length of the three preceding combined. 



* I have two males of this species, but the antennte iu both are damaged; 

 they are inserted nearer the middle of the rostrum than in the $ ; one lias 

 nine joints remaining and these are much the same as ia J. 



