250 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID.E, VII., 



Glociiinorrhinus Doubledayi, Waterh.; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 5498. 



(J. Black, opaque; antennae reddish-piceous. Den^^ely clothed 

 with greyish or brown scales, which, when the insect is alive,. 

 have a greenish tinge; three intermediate segments of abdomen 

 nude, except for small patches of scales at the sides and down 

 the middle. Prothorax with long recurved setae, dark on disc, 

 pale on sides; head and rostrum setose. Ciliation rather long,^ 

 golden-yellow, irregular, distinctly visible with head in position. 



Head scarcely punctate, a feeble longitudinal impression at 

 base. Rostrum granulate and punctate, depressed on each side 

 of apex; each side slightly in front of middle with a strong 

 recurved spine resembling a boar's tusk, a smaller spine close 

 behind it, a small spine in front of ocular fovea. Prothorax with 

 large granules or small tubercles at sides and towards base, with 

 a distinct median carina close to which there are no granules but 

 the setae are more numerous; apex depressed, sides rounded. 

 Scutelluni transverse, densely squamose. Elytra decreasing in 

 width from base to near apex, apex rounded; sides precipitous 

 and strongly seriate-punctate; disc with numerous granules, 3rd 

 interstice with three crests or ridges of granulate tubercles, 5th 

 with about eight small tubercles, some of which are conjoined, 

 •ith with a single conical tubercle, 7th with a row of granules or 

 small tubercles. Length 12 J, rostrum 4J, anterior legs 16; 

 width 5^, middle of elytra 4| mm. 



9. Differs in having the prothorax smaller and not wider than 

 elytra, these less noticeably decreasing in width to apex, the legs 

 (especially the tibiae and tarsi) shorter, and the rostrum smooth, 

 glabrous and finely punctate. Length 12, rostrum 4 J, anterior 

 legs 11 J; width 5 mm. 



Hah. — Coastal districts of S. Queensland and Northern New 

 South Wales. 



An excellent figure of this species is given by the late Mr. A. 

 Sidney Olliff in the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 

 [Yol. vi., in a plate facing p.261]. The armature and granulation 

 of the rostrum are varial)le. Tn one specimen under examina- 



