616 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID.E, X , 



scales either uniformly muddy or dingy white, with two rather 

 large blackish blotches; rostrum densely squamose at base, in ^ 

 scales feebly continued to apex; in 9 glabrous from slightly 

 before antennae. 



Head with punctures concealed, ocular fovea usually invisible. 

 Rostrum slightly wider at base than at apex, feebly incurved to 

 middle,, finely punctate. Scape the length of two basal joints of 

 funicle. Protliorax slightly transverse, less noticeably so in 9 

 than (J; sides rounded, apex narrow, the narrow portion about 

 one-fifth of the total length, disc slightly convex, without 

 visible punctures; occasionally (but very rarely) with a feeble 

 median carina continuous from base to apex. Elytra very feebly 

 increasing to beyong the middle in 9, subparallel in (J; striate- 

 punctate, striae and punctures larger and more distinct near base 

 and suture than sides and apex, where the strife are narrowed 

 and the punctures entirely concealed. Under surface with large 

 punctures on metasternum and abdomen; two basal segments of 

 the latter flattened in 9, largely excavated in ^J, the excavation 

 in some species appearing to be continued both ways. Length 4, 

 rostrum j; width 1|; extremes 3J-5 mm. 



Hah. — Australia and Tasmania. 



A very dingy species, with exceedingly variable clothing. The 

 scales on the prothorax are black, but frequently with the sides 

 and apex obscurely ochreous, occasionally with the disc ochreous, 

 sometimes the ochreous scales predominating. The basal third 

 of the elytra is usually black, but from thence to apex it is 

 difficult to find two specimens exactly alike; just before the 

 middle, however, there are usually two dingy white oblique spots; 

 the interstices usually appear to be feebly longitudinally divided, 

 owing to their being clothed with a double row of scales. The 

 larger scales sprinkled about are scarcely suberect except at the 

 apex of elytra; the black ones are sometimes highly polished and 

 appear like small beads or granules. The suture in many speci- 

 mens appears to be finely braided. The under surface, and 

 especially the abdomen, is variable in regard to the colour of the 

 scales. The median prothoracic carina is not constant, as in only 



