510 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIOXID.E, 



Hah. — Illawarra, N.S.W. Pascoe states, "prothorace subob- 

 •cordato, supra planato, antice valde producto, apice anguste 

 rotundato, basi prope scutellum fortiter biimpresso." In my 

 opinion this insect will have to be placed in a new genus, along 

 with several other species known to me, at present undescribed. 



P. TETRicus, Pasc, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) xiii. 1874, p. 412; 

 (Mast. Cat. 5442). 



Hah. — Gayndah, Q. Pascoe says of the prothorax, '• utrinque 

 angulato-producto, basi profunde bisinuato" and "strongly and 

 angularly expanded at the sides." Another character he gives is 

 " abdomine segmentis duobus basalibus peramplis." The characters 

 quoted seem to me to exclude the species from Poropterus. 



Under this name Mr. Chas. French has lent me two specimens 

 from Gayndah, which agree in nearly all particulars with Pascoe's 

 description. But I should at once refer these to the genus 

 Paleticus, Pasc. 



The two species following were received too late to lie dealt 

 with in the tables given. 



Poropterus orthodoxus, n.sp. 



Upper surface sparsely clothed with small suboval scales closely 

 adpressed to derm; of a dingy black colour, except on prothorax 

 where they assume in places a dull ferruginous tint especially in 

 middle and at sides of apex; about the middle there is a feeble 

 attempt at fascicles of dark ferruginous scales ; each elytral 

 puncture carries a larger scale, which towards the suture are 

 black, becoming ferruginous towards sides ; in the middle the 

 interstitial scales are darker than the lateral. Under surface 

 more evenly clothed than upper, the scales smaller, more elongate 

 and suberect, black, becoming ferruginous on sides of abdomen, 

 on mesosternal receptacle, coxas, trochanters and tarsi. Head 

 rather densely clothed with black and ferruginous scales, rostrum 

 carrying a rather smaller scale in each puncture, towards the apex 

 becoming small seti?e ; mouth parts fringed with sparse mode- 

 rately long testaceous setfe. Ciliation composed of about a dozen 

 short, bright, dark yellow hairs. 



