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rate, much and conspicuously paler than the rest of the surface. 

 A very distinct depression divides the rostrum from the head. 

 The rostrum would probably appear tri-carinate if it were 

 abraded. There is a short well-defined longitudinal fovea just 

 above the base of the rostrum. The funicle of the antennae is 

 slightly longer than the scape. Its basal joint is the longest, 

 except the 2nd, which is half again as long, 3-5 each half as long as 

 2, and distinctly longer than wide, 6 and 7 somewhat longer. The 

 base of the elytra is considerably wider than the base of the 

 prothorax. The sides of the latter are gently and evenly rounded. 

 The sides of the elytra are somewhat evenly arcuate, very gently 

 in the male, pretty strongly in the female. The metasternum is 

 very short, scarcely longer than the diameter of the middle coxse, 

 and only about f the length of the basal ventral segment. The 

 prothorax is without ocular lobes and the rostral scrobes are linear 

 and curved downward. 



I have little doubt but that this species is closely allied to that 

 which Herr Faust has described (Deutsch. Ent. Zeit. xxx. p. 362) 

 as " Prypnus (1) pygmceus." It differs a little from Fryptnus in 

 facies, owing to the absence of well-marked tubercles near the 

 apex of the elytra, the dense squamosity of the surface, and the 

 slightly uneven appearance of the elytra which seem to be thickly 

 furnished with slight scarcely defined nodosities ; this appearance 

 is caused, I think, by the punctures in the strise being deep and 

 coarse, so that the scales on the intei'stices, between each two of 

 these punctures, seem to be slightly protuberant above the scales 

 that fill the punctures themselves. It difiers also from Prypnus 

 in the presence of a fringe of cilia on the front margin of the 

 prothorax, behind the eye. 



N. S. Wales ; Blue Mountains. 



(OTIORHYNCHIN.^.) 



TiTINIA. 



The group of Australian Curculionidcs to which this genus 

 belongs, may be characterised as Otiorhynchidce having the hind 



