488 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONIDiE, 



Hah. — Illawarra, N.S.W. Described from a specimen kindl}^ 

 lent me for examination by Mr. George Masters. Originally 

 described from Moreton Bay. 



PoROPTERUS EXiTiosus, Pasc; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 5425. 



Scales brown or sooty-brown, small, sparse, densest on prothorax 

 where are also a few elongate ones about tubercles, irregular on 

 under surface, elongate and projecting on tibiae; head moderately 

 clothed, rostrum — except at sides — almost nude. Ciliation short, 

 silvery-yellow, invisible unless head be removed. 



Broad, flat, tubercles large. Head large, flat, imiounctate 

 (larger and flatter in ^); rostrum with regular feeble punctures; 

 ocular fovea represented by a very small puncture: eyes moder- 

 atel}'' granulate; I'ostrum feebly shining, rather broad, widening 

 to apex, feebly curved (longest and straightest in <^)\ antenna? 

 long, scape in ^ inserted about one-fourth from apex, about two- 

 thirds of its length passing muzzle, in 9 inserted about two-fiftljs 

 or more from apex, not half its length passing muzzle; 2nd joint 

 of funicle almost twice as long as 1st, and a little longer than 

 three following combined, 7th not transverse; club free, elongate, 

 four-jointed, as long as four apical joints of funicle. Apex of 

 protliorax produced, bluntly but distinctly bifurcate, about one- 

 fourth the width of base, subtriangular to basal two-thirds, which 

 are subparallel; ocular lobes almost obsolete; constriction just 

 traceable, Itase feebly depressed at its middle, two transverse 

 rows of four very feeble tubercles, the anterior row without the 

 scales would be obsolete. Eli/tra scarcely twice the length of 

 prothorax and wider at its base, widest a little in front of the 

 middle; shoulders with a large obtuse tubercle projecting on to 

 prothorax, 2nd interstice with three large equidistant ones, the 

 3rd at summit of declivity (wKich is abruptly rounded), 4th 

 interstice with two smaller tubercles placed between those on 

 2nd, the largest tubercle of all a little before the middle of 

 declivity on 3rd interstice, and like the others (except on shoulders) 

 it is obtusely conical, 6th interstice with a row of six or seven 

 feeble tubercles, and a feeble one on 7th almost at base; each side 



