622 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID.?:, X., 



carina moderately distinct in middle but feeble towards base, and 

 absent at apex. Elytra not much wider than prothorax; shoulders 

 rounded, apex almost conjointly rounded- striate-punctate, punc- 

 tures rather large, more or less concealed; alternate interstices 

 irregularly raised and subtuberculate in places. Under surface 

 densely punctate. Mesosternal receptacle longitudinal. Femora 

 strongly but not acutely dentate. Length 8J, rostrum 2; width 

 4|; variation in length 5^-8J mm, 



Hah. — N.S.W.: Hope's Creek, Blue Mountains — Queensland. 



The dark patch of scales about the scutellum is very distinctive. 

 On removing the scales the head is seen to be densely but not 

 very coarsely punctate, and to be entirely without ocular fovea. 



Tychreus dilaticollis Lea, Mem. See. Ent. Beige, xvi. 1908, 



p. 182. 

 Hah. — New South Wales. 



Tychreus coryssomerus Leu, I c, p.lSL 

 Hah. — Queensland — New South Wales. 



Tychreus reversus, n.sp. 



Convex, elliptic-ovate. Reddish;, rostrum darker, antennse 

 (club excepted) paler than elsewhere. Densely clothed with pale 

 fawn-coloured scales, but nowhere fasciculate, scales here and 

 there darker; the prothorax with a dark subquadrate basal 

 patch, 



Rostrum coarsely punctured at basal third in (J, at extreme 

 base only in 9- Scape scarcely half the length of funicle and club 

 combined; in ^ inserted slightly closer to base than apex, in 9 

 inserted decidedly closer to base. Prothorax moderately trans- 

 verse, apex less suddenly narrowed than usual; densely punctate, 

 punctures round and strong, usually concealed. Elytra about 

 once and one-third the width of prothorax, shoulders rounded, 

 apex almost conjointly rounded; striate-punctate, punctures large, 

 round, more or less concealed; interstices regular, gently convex, 

 the width of punctures. Under surface densely punctate. 

 Mesosternal ueceptacle decidedly longitudinal. Femora acutely 



