612 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID.E, X., 



appearance being close to P. corticalis, but with the clothing 

 looser, the large suberect scales larger and more numerous, and 

 the prothorax slightly narrower, with somewhat different sculp- 

 ture. The clothing is somewhat as in F. nehulosus, but that 

 species also has the prothoracic sculpture different. The pro- 

 thoracic impressions consist of a deep bilobed median channel, 

 the walls of which are impressed across the middle; and each 

 side with a sinuous impression opening out at the base half-way 

 between the middle and the side, and in front at the side one- 

 third from the apex; the whole prothorax in consequence appears^ 

 to be covered with large, obtuse, coarsely squamose tubercles. 

 Both specimens appear to be females, with the rostrum clothed 

 only at the basal third, elsewhere being shining and with small 

 but closely defined puncture'^. The hind femora are strongly 

 dentate. 



Hah. — Queensland : Somerset* — New Guinea : Yule Island. 



P. PEDicuLOSUS Lea. 



Genus Achopera Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, pp.4T3, 478. 



Head somewhat flattened; ocular fovea small, usually concealed. 

 Eyes small, round, coarsely faceted, distant. Rostrum moderately 

 long, rather narrow, very feebly dilating to apex, curved. 

 Antennce ii[\ovt; scape short, inserted about middle of rostrum, 

 terminating considerably before apex, its apex thickened; funicle 

 more than twice the length of scape, two basal joints moderately 

 long. 1st thick, 3rd-7th transverse; club briefly ovate or pyriform. 

 Prothorax scarcely overhanging head, flattened or very feebl}^ 

 convex, slightly transverse, or slightly longer than M'ide; apex 

 narrowed, somewhat produced and rounded, ocular lobes obtuse; 

 constriction usually concealed. Scutellum small, distinct. Elytra 

 feebly convex, wider than prothorax and about twice and one- 

 half its length, base trisinuate; sides parallel to near apex; apex 

 obtusely rounded. Pectoral canal rather deep and wide, termi- 

 nated at base of anterior coxa3. Mesosternal receptacle depressed 



I have not seen Queensland spechiiens. 



