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summit with a patch of very fine reddish spines; on the ventral 

 surface flattened and corrugated, each bearing a pair of very 

 short conical legs : abdominal segments slightly smaller than the 

 thorax, corrugated and clothed with similar line spines as the 

 thoracic segments. 



The larvae feed upon the stems of Persoonia lanceolata; entering 

 through the bark a few inches above the surface of the ground, 

 they bore holes towards the centre of the trunk, then turning 

 upwards and hollowing out parallel chambers several inches long, 

 and pupating at the end of the last chamber. I found one nearly 

 perfect beetle, and several full-grown larva? early in July, at 

 Hornsby. The beetle is about 7 lines in length, of a general 

 slender and ver}" graceful form compared with most of the weevils; 

 black, but having a greyish tint from the fine clothing of grey 

 hairs covering both dorsal and ventral sides. The snout is long, 

 slender, and smooth, the thorax rugose, the elytra also rugose, 

 with close deeply punctured striae. 



It is not a very common beetle, but is generally found in pairs, 

 about i*^ovember, clinging to the twigs of small bushes. 



AxiDES DORSALis, Pascoe. 



Larva pale yellow, about 3|^ lines in length when uncurled; 

 when met with is nearly always lying with its back arched and 

 the head nearly touching the tip of the abdomen; head oval, 

 ferruginous, with two pale ochreous lines in the centre giving it a 

 variegated appearance; jaws black, short, and angular; first 

 thoracic segment small, 2nd and 3rd with the first seven abdominal 

 segments of a uniform size; 8th and 9th forming a short broadly 

 rounded tip. 



The larvae are very plentiful in^May and June in the stems of 

 Astrotricha Jioccosa; they bore from the surface into the soft 

 pithy centre, forming short cylindrical burrows, sometimes only 

 one or two being together, but oftener in little colonies of ten or 

 a dozen; their attacks cause the limb to swell and exude a lot of 

 sticky strongly smelling aromatic resin, which burns very readily; 



