BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 507 



almost free. Protliorax convex, longer and deeper than wide ; 

 apex produced, subtruncate, not much narrower than base, sides 

 rounded, decreasing to base ; ocular lobes feeble ; constriction 

 shallow, near bottom deep, near top visible from above and con- 

 tinued across summit ; median carina narrow, continued from 

 base to constriction, a line continued thence to apex, a transverse 

 row of four feebly rounded tubercles, the lateral slightly in 

 advance of the median. Elytra ovate, more than twice the length 

 of and at base narrower than protliorax, before the middle almost 

 twice as wide ; base depressed ; sides with two rows of almost 

 regular punctures, the rest feeble and irregular, small granules at 

 base of suture and summit of declivity; on each side near summit 

 of declivity a large conical tubercle conjoined at base, 2nd inter- 

 stice with three small, round but distinct tubercles, equidistant 

 from each other, 4th also with three less separated, the middle 

 one of which is level with the middle one of 2nd interstice, 6th 

 interstice with a feeble ridge about basal thii'd, a feeble tubercle 

 at junction of 4th and 6th; apex rounded. Basal segment of 

 abdomen almost twice the length of 2nd, its suture with that 

 segment distinct only at sides (on account of scales); intermediates 

 feebly convex, their sutures deep and distinct, longer than 2nd 

 but not as long as apical, below which they are very feebly 

 depressed, aijical with an almost obsolete transverse impression, 

 apex distinctly punctate. Leys long and rather thin; posterior 

 femora reaching middle of apical segment ; tibite compressed, 

 feebly bent; tarsi slender, 3rd joint moderately bilobed. Length 

 13, rostrum 3|; width 6 mm. 



tiah. — Tasmania (Rev. T. Blackburn and Mr. A. Simson) ; 

 N.S.W. (Mr. Horace W. Brown); "Australia Pipitz " (Herr J. 

 Faust, No. 13). Described from Tasmania by Erichson and 

 Boheman, and from Eclipse Island {prodigus) by Pascoe. 



The description here given is from a Tasmanian specimen, I 

 have a number of others which, though evidently conspecific, are 

 all slightly variable inter se. The prothoracic carina in some 

 .specimens is distinct and short, in others it is more elongate and 

 less distinct, in one specimen it is just traceable. The elytral 



