460 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONIDvE 



PoROPTERUS ABSTERSUS, Bohem.; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 5419. 



Upper surface sparsely clothed with dark brown short scales, 

 interspersed with a few more elongate towards sides ; under 

 surface with paler scales, which have a feeble lustre at base of 

 under surface of femora ; legs with adpressed elongate scales ; 

 head densely, rostrum less densely squamose. Ciliation very 

 short, silvery-yellow. 



Convex, cylindric, feebly tuberculate. Head with feeble ocular 

 fovea ; eyes moderately granulate ; rostrum curved, distinctly 

 punctate, muzzle widening to apex ; scape inserted about one- 

 third from apex, passing muzzle for almost half its length; 1st 

 joint of funicle a little longer than 2nd, 2nd as long as two 

 following combined; club free. Prothorax as in preceding except 

 that apical constriction is narrower, sides more rounded, median 

 carina less and the granules a little more distinct. Elytra as in 

 preceding except that the sides are more rounded, punctures 

 larger, less in number and more distinct, posterior declivity less 

 abrupt and almost without trace of tubercles at summit. Abdomen 

 flattened, distinctly punctate, intercoxal process narrower than in 

 the preceding, its sides near coxse distinctly elevated: intermediate 

 segments larger. Femora just reaching apical segment. Length 

 9, rostrum 2; width 3 ^ mm. 



^a 6.— Tasmania (Rev. T. Blackburn, Nos 6190 and 6192 ; 

 Mr. G. Masters). Described by Boheman from Australia. 



. PoROPTERUS ANTiQUUS, Bohem.; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 5420. 



Moderately densely clothed with brown and sooty-brown short 

 or elongate scales, densest towards apex of elytra; under surface 

 with paler scales ; legs with still paler, very dense, adpressed, 

 elongate scales ; head and base of rostrum densely squamose. 

 Ciliation sparse, short, brownish. 



Convex, cylindric, feebly tuberculate. Head and rostrum 

 densely punctate (but the punctures usually concealed); ocular 

 fovea almost obsolete; rostrum curved, subparallel, the muzzle 

 feebly widening to apex; scape inserted at less than one-third 



