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HKTEROMKRA, &C., FKOM TROPICAL AUSTRALIA, 



the Amycterid weevils. It may be tentatively placed in the 

 tribe Me (icanthini, as defined by Leconte and Home. 



Catopherus corpulkntus, n.sp. 



Stoutly ovate; head, thorax, abdomen, and legs polislied ebony- 

 black, elytra metallic green with a purple tinge, suture of elytra 



Head closely and strongly punctate, antennae with joint 3 

 cylindric, as long as 4-5 combined, 4-8 successively increasing in 



thickness and 



length, 9-11 

 thinner, the apical joint taper- 

 ing, Frothorax 3J x5 mm , 

 truncate at apex and base, an- 

 terior angles obsolete, widest 

 in front of middle, sides nearly 

 straight behind, widely round- 

 ed towards apex ; posterior 

 angles subrectangular but de- 

 pressed, disc smooth with 

 small medial dent at apex and 

 base, and (under a strong 

 lens) showing minute shallow 

 punctures; basal border nar- 

 rowly raised. Elytra of same 

 width as prothorax at base, 

 soon widening — shoulders ob- 

 solete -widest behind middle: seriate-punctate, with nine rows 

 of large punctures, forming crenulations on the raised, but not 

 costate intervals; these smooth and impunctate. Epipleurce nar- 

 row and smooth; apical segment of abdomen minutely punctate, 

 other segments polished. Dimensions : 16| x 8 mm. 

 //a6. —Yorkshire Downs, North Queensland. 

 A single specimen, probably female, was sent me some years 

 aco bv Mr. C. French, but I have hesitated to describe it through 

 the uncertainty of its position. The vertical head, vertically 

 rounded prothorax, with the pronotum embracing and subcon- 

 tinuous with the episterna, long and slender antennae, and long 



Text-fig. 7. 

 Cafoj3he)'ns corpnJentus, n.sp. 



