282 NOTES ox AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



The following table exhibits some of the distinctive characters 

 of the species desci-ibecl above. For the sake of comparison I 

 have included a few previously described species. 



A. Hind corbels subcavernous. 



B. Basal joint of funiculus longer than 

 2nd. 

 C. Prothorax more or less closely rugu- 

 lose. 

 D. Elytra margined at base. 



E. Elytra at apex margined with 



a carina lonyipennis, Pasc. 



EE. Elytra at apex normal satelles^ Blackb. 



DD. Elytra not margined at base. 



E. Pubescence bright fulvous fulvus, Blackb. 



EE. Pubescence whitish 7nodestus, Blackb. 



CC. Prothorax (saving a few remotely 

 and irregularly placed rugulosi- 



ties) smooth fortis, Blackb. 



BB. Basal two joints of funiculus equal 



inter se rostralis, Blackb. 



AA. Hind corbels normal. 



B. Apical plate of rostrum normal. 

 C. Head not or scarcely strigose longi- 

 tudinally. 

 D. Rostrum well distinguished from 

 head. 

 E. Size not very small (not less 

 than long. 3 lines, rostr. 

 inch). 

 F. Basal joint of funiculus 

 more than three times as 



long as wide tibialis, Blackb. 



FF. Basal joint of funiculus 

 about twice as long as 

 wide nitidilabris. Germ. 



