478 REVISIOX OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIOMD^, 



apex of abdomen ; tibiae straight, posterior a trifle longer than 

 anterior; tarsi narrow, subparallel, 3rd joint almost simple, 4th 

 as long as 1st and 2nd combined. Length 18, rostrum 5; width 

 8 mm. 



Hah. — N. Queensland (Mr. G. Masters). 



PoROPTERUS IDOLUS, Faust, MS., n sp. 



Densely covered with minute griseous slaty-brown scales; pro- 

 thorax and punctures with a few large scales; under surface and 

 legs with moderately sparse setose brown scales, densest on tibiae; 

 head and sides of rostrum with sparse elongate scales. Ciliation 

 minute, dingy. 



Convex, strongly tuberculate. Head feebly punctate, rostrum 

 with moderately dense elongate shallow punctures ; ocular fovea 

 almost obsolete; eyes moderately granulate, subtriangular; ros- 

 trum feebly curved, subparallel, muzzle widening to apex, a feeble 

 carina traceable from ocular fovea to apex ; antennae elongate; 

 scape inserted about two-thirds from apex, slightly passing muzzle; 

 2nd joint of funicle feebly arcuate, slightly longer than 1st and a 

 little longer than two following combined, 3rd longer than 4th, 

 7th not as long as two preceding combined, subadnate to club. 

 Prothorax scarcely longer than wide, apex produced, almost 

 truncate, more than half the width of base; constriction shallow, 

 noticeable from above; ocular lobes slight; median carina marked 

 by a very feeble thickening in the exact middle; scutellar lobe 

 just traceable; three obsolete granules on each side at base, a 

 transverse row of four tubercles across middle, the lateral more 

 acute and smaller than median, apical ridges as elongate tubercles 

 in a line with or a little outwards of the median (in the preceding 

 species their apices are closer together). Extreme length of 

 elyh'ci more than twice that of prothorax, base as wide as its base, 

 bisinuate, sides widest about the middle, much wider than pro- 

 thorax; tubercles as in the preceding, but the soldered ones at 

 summit of declivity and nearer to apical of 2nd interstice, those 

 of the 4th on declivity narrower and more prominent, apex 

 rounded, thickened, without small lateral tubercles. Basal sag- 



