484 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID.E 



densely clothed with short — interspersed (especially on tibise) with 

 elongcate — scales; head and rostrum densely squamose, the scales 

 of various sizes. Ciliation sparse, minute, bright silvery. 



Convex, elongate-elliptic, tubercles rather large. Head very 

 flat, ocular fovea minute, almost concealed ; rostrum elongate, 

 feebly curved (longest in ^), with dense shallow punctures (con- 

 cealed in (J), muzzle slightly widening to apex; antennae elongate, 

 inserted about two-fifths from apex in (^, one-third in ^, passing 

 muzzle for one-third or half its length; basal joint of funicle 

 thick, obconic, scarcely half the length of 2nd, 2nd elongate, 

 slightly longer than the three following combined ; club free, 

 joints moderately distinct. Prothorax a. \\it\Q longer than. wide; 

 apex flat, produced, feebly bifurcate, about one-third the width of 

 base; ocular lobes rather feeble; constriction deep, visible from 

 above ; base truncate ; median carina short, narrow ; lateral 

 tubercles flattened outwardly, their separation distinct, the pos- 

 terior subcontinuous to base; disc on each side of carina with a 

 moderately large tubercle longer than wide, feeble granules 

 towards base, a feeble carina from median tubercles to aj)ex. 

 Elytra — with apical tubercles — more than twice as long as pro- 

 thorax, and wider at its middle, with a few small granules 

 scattered about; tubercles of interstices as in the preceding species, 

 except that they are a little more distinctly granulate, and the 

 posterior of the three on the 2nd interstice a little further from 

 the intermediate than first ; apical tubercles large, triangular, 

 moderately separated at apices ; sides feebly concave, bases 

 touching ; punctures rather large, almost concealed ; declivity 

 rather abrupt. Basal segment of abdomen fully twice as long as 

 2nd, 2nd feebly convex, intermediates a little shorter than apical. 

 Femora elongate, in ^ feebly passing, in $ scarcely reaching apex 

 of abdomen; tiljiee straight, intermediate very short, 3rd tarsal 

 joint widely bilobed, 1st and 4th elongate, the latter longest. 

 Length 11, rostrum 2f; width 3| mm. 



Jfah. — Richmond River, N.S.W. (Lea). Originally described 

 from Moreton Bay. 



