600 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID.^^:, X., 



dense round punctures, only partially concealed by scales 

 Elytra closely applied to prothorax and slightly wider; striate- 

 punctate, striee rather feeble, punctures moderately distinct, 

 each containing a scale; alternate interstices scarcely visibly 

 raised; preapical callus scarcely traceable. Punctures of under 

 surface and legs slightly traceable. Femora moderately strongly 

 and equally dentate, posterior extending to penultimate segment. 

 Length 4|, rostrum 1; width IJmm. 



Hab.—W.A.: Albany (R. Helms), Mt. Barker, Pinjarrah, 

 Vasse, Bridgetown(A. M. Lea). 



The eyes in this and the following species are smaller and moie 

 widely separated than in the preceding; the scales on the pro- 

 thorax are more or less erect; in the preceding each puncture 

 appears to have a scale completely covering it; on the 3rd, 5th, 

 and 7th interstices there are more or less distinct series of stout 

 suberect scales. 



Menios albifasciatus, n.sp. 



Piceous-red, antennae paler; apical third of rostrum feebly 

 shining. Densel}' clothed with soft scales of a dingy white on 

 the under surface, legs, between the eyes and on rostrum; on the 

 upper surface pale brown and white, the white scales clotliing 

 the sides of prothorax, from which they are continued on to 

 shoulders, thence obliquely in widening fascise to suture (so that 

 a somewhat ovate patch of brown scales is enclosed on the elytra 

 and prothorax), an oblique fascia continued from each side to 

 summit of posterior declivity, apex with whitish scales. Pro- 

 thorax with apical fascicles not traceable, and the median trace- 

 able with difficultj'^; elytra not fasciculate. 



Rostrum moderately curved, sides incurved to middle, base 

 wider than apex; rather coarsely punctate, punctures concealed 

 in front of antennae. Scape inserted slightl}^ nearer apex tlian 

 base of rostrum. Prothorax feebly transverse, base bisinuate, 

 apex rather narrow, sides rounded and gently decreasing to base 

 from behind middle; densely punctate, each puncture concealed 

 by a soft and gently concave scale. Elytra considerabl}^ wider 



