BY ARTHUR M. LEA, 305 



C U R C U L I N I D .5:. 



SOSYTELUS RUGICOLLIS, 11. sp. 



Short, thick, rough, opaque. Black; claws feebl}^ diluted with 

 red. Extremely minutely punctate all over. Base of head and 

 antenna? with small griseous scales, smaller, sparser and duller at 

 sides of jDrothorax, undersurface and legs. 



Head short, thick; with short set*; a moderately large tubercle 

 close to the eyes; rostrum excavated, at its apex a triangular and 

 raised emargination. Disk of prothorax with three excavations, 

 the central one continuous from base to apex, and oj^en at both 

 ends, the lateral ones a little shorter, semicircular outwards, 

 closed at apex, irregularly and narrowly open behind; on the 

 summits of the excavations and the sides there are a number of 

 large, shallow setose punctures, some of them in the centre of a 

 feebly raised tubercle; sides angularly produced in the middle. 

 El3'tra not twice the length of head and prothorax combined; the 

 disk very feebly striate-punctate, each puncture carrying a small 

 seta, at the sides the striae are five in number and very feeble, 

 but the punctures are rather large and distinct; the 3rd and 6th 

 interstices strongly raised, costiform and setose, the 3rd slightly 

 produced at the base, interrupted towards and tuberculate at 

 apex; the 6th produced at the shoulders, extending for about a 

 fourth the length of prothorax, interrupted towards and tuber- 

 culate at apex; in consequence of the interruptions of these costce 

 there is a transverse row of four tubercles; these when looked at 

 from behind appear as short conical elevations, the two outer 

 more obtuse; apical third declivous, with rows of rather strong 

 punctures, the strongest close to suture. Sterna irregularly 

 punctate, apex of mesosternum with three transverse rows of 

 strong punctures. Abdominal segments obsoletely punctate. Legs 

 rather short, setose, the coxae irregularly punctate and densely 

 setose. Length 10|, width 4|^ mm. 



Hab. — Queanbeyan, IS'.S.W. 



