BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 575 



of the examples befoi-e me the prothorax bears some obscure large 

 impressions on either side of the middle which are scarcely visible 

 in the other example. The epipleurse of the elytra are almost 

 laevigate. 



S. Australia (Fowler's Bay) and W. Australia (Israelite Bay). 



CURCULI0NIDJ5. 



POLYPHRADES SATELLES, Sp.nOV. 



Elongato-oblongus, subnitide niger ; plus minus crebre (1 exem- 

 plo recenti confertim) fusco- vix subaureo-squamosus ; rostro 

 minus abbreviato obscure 5-carinato ; antennis robustis, scapo 

 prothorucem fere attingenti apice vix dilatato, funiculi 

 articulo 1° 2° duplo (hoc 3° vix) longiori ; oculis sat magnis, 

 sat transversis, infra acuminatis, subtiliter granulatis ; pro- 

 thorace quam longiori dimidia parte latiori, margine basali 

 elevato instructo, sat crasse (parte antica angusta excepta) 

 mamillato-ruguloso, basi quam margo anticus fere duplo 

 latiori, lateribus sat rotundatis, latitudine majori pone medium 

 posita ; elytris prothorace baud multo latioribus, apice baud 

 divaricatis, sat fortiter punctulato-striatis, interstitiis parum 

 convexis vix mamillato-subgranulatis, sutura postice haud 

 carinato. [Long, (rostr. inch) 55-65, lat. 2J-2^ lines. 



Maris elytrorum lateribus mox pone basin sat evidenter, feminse 

 vix, sinuatis. 



The general resemblance of this species is to P. longicollis, Pasc, 

 from which the longer antennal scape hardly dilated at the apex 

 will inter alia at once separate it. I have no doubt of my identi- 

 fication of P. longicollis, although that species is very imperfectly 

 described, — no mention being made e.g. of the eyes, although in a 

 memoir published little more than a year before the publication 

 of P. longicollis Mr. Pascoe founded the primary divisions of the 

 genus on the characters of the eyes. The combination of large 

 size, eyes as described above, non-carinate suture of elytra and 

 obscure squamosity will distinguish the insect from its previously 



named congeners. 

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