BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 419 



punctures marked by scales, interstices feebly raised, scarcely 

 distinguishable. Under surface moderately densely punctate; 

 abdominal segments with rather narrow sutures, the second with 

 about three rows of moderately regular punctures, each of the 

 3rd and 4th with two distinct and very regular rows. Posterior 

 femora scarcely extending to middle of 4th segment, the teeth in 

 all rather small; tibiae short, grooved, equal, parallel except at 

 base. Length 4, rostrum 1; width 2 mm. 



ZTaS.— N.S.W.: Gosford. 



On a first glance the elytral interstices appear to be wider than 

 the punctures, but this is not the case, although they are wider 

 than usual; from the following species (which it closely resembles) 

 its larger size, more convex form, and shining rostrum will 

 sufficiently distinguish it. 



Tyrt.eosus usTULATUs, Pasc. ; Ix. No. 5559. 



Piceous-black; antennae and tarsi dark reddish-brown. Ros- 

 trum with setose scales throughout; prothorax with three feeble 

 longitudinal stripes of pale setose scales; elytra with griseous 

 scales forming very ill-defined fascitis and variable in pattern, 

 sparser at base and behind the middle than elsewhere; meta- 

 sternal episterna with embedded scales at each end, each of the 

 3rd and 4th abdominal segments with elongate scales forming at 

 least two very irregular rows. 



Head granulate and punctate; ocular fovea invisible; eyes 

 rather widely separated. Rostrum opaque, parallel to near apex, 

 coarsely punctate throughout. Prothorax feebly transverse, sides 

 feebly rounded; with deep round punctures giving the surface a 

 granulated appearance; median carina scarcely traceable. Scii- 

 tellum oblong, smooth, slightly raised. Elytra about once and 

 one-fourth the width of prothorax and not thrice its length; 

 slightly the widest behind middle; shoulders rounded; striate- 

 punctate, punctures rather large, sufficiently distinct; striae 

 apparently wider than interstices, these raised and appearing as 

 rows of oblong granules. Mesosternal rece'ptade rather wide. 

 Under surface coarsely punctate, punctures and scales of 3rd and 



