262 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Q. Protliorace multo iiiiiius gibboso ; elytris postice latioribus ; 

 tibiis rufis. [Long. 3 J, lat. lyV'H lines. 



Differs from P. lecideosus, Pasc, by its peculiarly shaped pro- 

 tliorax, which is almost globular ; viewed from the side the curve 

 of the upper outline of the prothorax rises up high above the level 

 of the elytra ; a little on either side of the middle line and near 

 the front there is a separate gibbosity independent of that of the 

 general surface ; the evidently (though slightly) turned up front 

 margin of the elytra is also a good character. I have not seen 

 P. abstersus, Pasc, but it is described as a larger insect, clothed 

 with long setse ; ray examples of this species are somewhat abraded 

 but their vestiture does not seem to differ notably from that of 

 P. lecideosus. 



W. Australia; Carnarvon. 



TiMARETA. 



The diagnosis of this genus is thoroughly unsatisfactory, con- 

 taining little definite information. The scape, for instance, is 

 said to be " elongate " without its length being defined ; and yet 

 the genus is said to " lie between Trachyphloeus and Asceparnus^^ 

 two genera having the scape shorter than in most Otiorhynchid 

 genera, and is '' differentiated " from them (not by the different 

 scape but) "by the form of the posterior tarsi" without any 

 description of what the form of the posterior tarsi is. 



Reading the description of the species together with Mr. Pascoe's 

 remarks on the genus, I think it is to be understood that its author 

 referred the genus to the TrachyjMuiides, and this being so (as 

 no Australian species have been i eferred to other TrachyjMoeid 

 genera), I think the difficulties of the generic diagnosis may be 

 overcome (or rather evaded) — pending a re-examination of the 

 types —by provisionally attributing to Timareta all such Austra- 

 lian Otiorhynchides as appertain tu the Trachyphloeid series, 

 unless, of course, any should turn up presenting very definite 

 distinctive characters. 



The species described below are certainly, I think, Trachyj^hlceldes 

 (with which apportionment their facies agrees more or less per- 



