438 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID^, 



ment; episterna distinct. Abdomen with the 1st segment as long 

 as 2nd and 3rd combined, intercoxal process narrow; 2nd-4th with 

 the sides drawn slightly backwards, 2nd slightly shorter than 5th 

 and about once and one-half the length of each of the following. 

 Legs moderately long; femora scarcely grooved but each with a 

 thin ridge terminating in a tooth, posterior passing elytra; tibiae 

 thin, flat and curved; tarsi moderately long, 1st joint slightly 

 longer than 4th. Elliptic, convex, non-tuberculate, winged. 



Most of the characters described denote an approach to Tyr- 

 tceosus; the legs are much as in Pe^HssojJs (except that the tibiae 

 are thinner); and the rostrum and antennae are suggestive of 

 affinity with Pezichus. The species described below is remarkable 

 for the large round fovea on the apical segment of the ^. 



BOTHYNACRUM STOREOIDES, n.sp. 



^. Reddish-castaneous and lightly shining. Sparsely clothed 

 with subochreous scales; elytra with a very distinct but small 

 transverse patch of white scales at summit of posterior declivity 

 and a longitudinal patch on each side at apex. Under surface 

 and legs with white scales; head and basal two-thirds of rostrum 

 with whitish scales. 



Head with small punctures. Rostrum slightly longer than 

 prothorax, thin and parallel-sided; basal half with concealed but 

 rather small punctures, and with a moderatel}' distinct median 

 carina and a much feebler one on each side; apical half shining 

 and lightly punctate. Scape inserted one-fifth from apex of 

 rostrum; two basal joints of funicle subequal, their combined 

 length slightly less than that of the others, 6th and 7th trans- 

 verse. Prothorax moderately transverse, with dense and moder- 

 ately strong (but slightly obscured) punctures ; with a very 

 narrow and almost continuous median carina. Elytra about 

 once and one-third the width and twice and one-half the length 

 of prothorax; striate-punctate, punctures large but shallow at 

 each end; interstices convex and regular, narrower or the width 

 of punctures, but posteriorly becoming considerably wider. 



