BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 103 



Island in which the greenish scales have entirely disappeared, 

 leaving only a feeble line of white scales on the prothorax and 

 elytral suture. 



SCOLYTID^. 



Hylesinus fici, n.sp. 



(Plate iv., fig. 15.) 



(J. Oblong-elliptic, opaque. Dark reddish (or purplish) brown, 

 sterna black, antenn£e (club excepted), parts of legs and abdomen 

 reddish. Densely and finely punctate all over. Densely clothed 

 with short greyish pubescence, the elytra with exceedingly short 

 and dense pubescence, but in addition each interstice with two 

 or three very irregular rows of short, whitish, decumbent seta?. 



Head concave in front. Eyes about three times as wide as 

 long. Scape about as long as club; club with its first two joints 

 transverse and much wider at apex (each side of which is pro- 

 duced) than at base, the third obpyriform. Prothorax moderately 

 transverse, sides rounded, apex much narrower than base and 

 feebly or not at all incurved to middle, base bisinuate; with or 

 without traces of a feeble median elevation; apical third with 

 small granules in irregular transverse series. Elytra wider than 

 prothorax and not twice as long, each raised and rather strongly 

 separately rounded at base; punctate-striate, the punctures com- 

 paratively small; interstices wide and feebly separately convex; 

 base and suture near base with small granules. Tihice wide, the 

 four hind ones with a serrated (or dentate) outer ridge, the front 

 ones deeply notched for the tarsi and with two large teeth at and 

 near apex, the apical one largest; between these and base about 

 six small teeth; claw -joint not much longer than the rest (which 

 are rather wide) Combined. Length 3|, width 2 mm. 



9. Differs in being somewhat larger, with the head flat or 

 gently convex, and having shorter pubescence, and with the 

 anterior tarsi narrower. 



Hah. — Sydney, Narrabeen, National Park, N.S.W. 



The legs are somewhat variable in colour; usually, however, 

 the front femora and tibiae, and the middle femora are darker than 



