508 REVISION OP THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID^, 



tubercles vary greatly in size, sometimes being wide and rather 

 feebly elevated, in others smaller and much more distinct v 

 in all the specimens, however, the two large tubercles towards 

 the apex are very distinct. The small apical mucros are occa,sion- 

 ally absent. The rostrum between the antennae is either slightly 

 rounded or with a feeble carina. The scales vary in colour from 

 a uniform grey to the reddish-brown of ruhus. 



POROPTERUS FASCICULATUS, n.sp. 



Sparsely clothed with small muddy-brown scpJies, prothorax 

 with a few elongate scales in the middle and at apex ; each 

 elytron with five round fascicles of blackish set^e, the two most 

 distinct would be on the 2nd interstices, the ls<} a little closer to 

 2nd than base, the 2nd at summit of declivi^^y, a little before 

 middle of declivity a small elongate one, on 4th interstice slightly 

 in front of the larger fascicles still smaller ori'es, traces of others 

 still more minute; abdominal segments, coxae a^nd trochanters mure 

 densely clothed than upper surface, the scalee? moderately elongated 

 tibi;« with elongate scales, a few still narrcjwer on under surface 

 of femora ; rostrum entirely clothed, tl le scales at the sides 

 moderately elongate. Ciliation very mir lute, silvery-brown. 



Cylindric, nontuberculate. Head c(onvex and (as well as 

 rostrum) densely punctate ; ocular fcoVea not traceable, eyes 

 moderately granulate, apex produced; "rostrum distinctly curved, 

 thick, parallel to scape, then distinc/tly widened; scape inserted 

 abccat two-fifths from apex, just passi^)hg muzzle; funicle thick, 1st 

 joint longer and thicker than 2nd -^^nd as long as two following 

 combined, 3rd-7th transverse :^ 'club short, thick, subadnate to 

 funicle. Prothorax convex ^^. longer than wide, apex feebly pro- 

 duced, not much narrow.gr than wide; ocular lobes feeble; con- 

 striction very feeble -,-^- '"sides rounded; with a small distinct and 

 flat scutellar lobe..'^ Elytra no wider than prothorax and not 

 twice its length, Tparallel-sided, deeper than wide; sides feebly 

 punctate-striate-j disc with traces of rows of punctures, base with 

 a shining tran-i^yerse ridge at sides of scutellar lobe, between it 

 and shouldecr a smaller less shining one; shoulders feebly pro- 



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