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BEVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURGULI0N1B.E 



BELONGING TO THE SUBFAMILY 



CRYPTORHYNC HIDES. 



Part YIL 



By Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S. 



Genus Blepiarda, Pascoe, Journ. of Ent. ii. p. 430, 1866. 



Head small, not concealed; ocular fovea small and deep. Eyes 

 large, subtriangular, finely faceted, distant. Rostrum long and 

 rather thin, feebly curved, longer than prothorax. Mandibles 

 rather prominent, each tridentate internally. Antenytce slender, 

 sexually variable; scape of $ inserted at apex of rostrum, the 

 length of funicle and club combined; of 9 inserted slightly 

 nearer apex than base, shorter than funicle and club combined : 

 two basal joints of funicle elongate; 4th-7th transverse; club 

 elongate, cylindrical, apparentl}^ not jointed, in ^ shorter than 

 funicle, in ^ the length of or shorter than funicle. Prothorax 

 transverse, disc scarcely convex, apex produced, narrow and raised, 

 base bisinuate; ocular lobes prominent but slightly obtuse. 

 Scutellum moderately large and distinct. Elytra about thrice 

 the length of, closely applied to prothorax, and not much wider 

 at base; base trisinuate, shoulders feebly produced, apex rounded. 

 Pectoral canal rather narrow and deep, terminated between four 

 anterior coxse. Mesosteraal receptacle raised, walls thin and 

 rapidly sloping behind, keeled along middle, emargination very 

 feebly transverse, u-shaped; cavernous. J/etaster fiiwi moder- 

 ately large, very slightly shorter than basal segment of abdomen; 

 episterna large. ^6(iomen moderately large, sutures distinct; 1st 

 segment slightly longer than 2nd, its apex rather strongly incurved 

 to middle, intercoxal process rounded and narrow; 3rd and 4th 

 large, feebly rounded, their combined length slightly more than 



