4:94 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID^, 



convex, strongly granulate; rostrum curved, very feebly widening 

 from base; scape short, thick, inserted closer to base than apex, 

 terminating a considerable distance before apex; basal joint of 

 funicle thick, obtriangular, 2nd elongate, almost twice the length 

 of 1st, as long as three following combined, 7th feebly transverse; 

 club large, free, oval, subsolid. Prothorax longer than wide, apex 

 feebly produced, rounded, not much narrower than base, sides 

 and base rounded; constriction shallow, continued across summit; 

 ocular lobes feeble; median carina absent or at least invisible; 

 fascicles at apex and across disc marking position of tubercles; 

 apparently punctate. Ebjlra at base wider than prothorax and aJDOut 

 twice as long; base and apex rounde^, base depressed, shoulders 

 without tubercle, sides subparallel; suture (especially on declivity), 

 3rd and 5th interstices raised; 3rd feebly produced at base; with 

 regultCr rows of large punctures on disc, becoming fovete at sides. 

 Abdomen \\\t]i large round deep punctures or fovea?, basal segment 

 not twice as long as 2nd, intercoxal process broad, feebly concave, 

 2nd sloping down to intermediates and much longer than them; 

 intermediates distinctly depressed, small, impunctate ; apical 

 longer than intermediates, impunctate at apex. Legs rather 

 short; posterior femora not quite reaching apex of abdomen ; 

 tibipe compressed, the anterior very feebly curved; tarsi moderately 

 thick, 1st and 4th joints subequal, 3rd feebty bilobed. Length 

 8.|, rostrum 2; width 3f mm. 



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

 from Queensland. 



POROPTERUS CRASSICORNIS, n.sp. 



Densely covered with rather pale brown scales, prothorax with 

 a few moderately elongate, elytra on interstices — but especially 

 at sides and apex — with distinct elongate brown and sooty scales; 

 the fascicles (which are just traceable to the naked eye) are com- 

 posed of sooty scales; legs with elongate scales; head and rostrum 

 densely squamose. Ciliation just traceable. 



Convex, tubercles "\ery small. Head, except antennpe, as in 

 the preceding; antennte short, thick; scaj^e short, its insertion 



