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



shorter than tibiae, narrow, 3rd joint almost as long as wide, 

 deeply bilobed, lobes narrow, claw-joint elongate and with long 

 thin setfe. Elliptic, depressed, punctate, non-tuberculate, winged. 



Sympiezoscelus Waterhouse. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1853, ii.(n.ser.)p.203; Proc. p.l04: Lacordaire, 

 Gen. Col. T.vii. p.l39. 



nostrum comparatively short and stout, curved onl}^ at base. 

 Antennae stout, scape short and stout, inserted nearer base than 

 apex of rostrum, much shorter than funicle; club short, ovate, 

 free. Prothorax as long as wide. Elytra very slightly wider 

 than prothorax, sides subparallel to near apex, apex rounded. 

 Intercoxal process of abdomen rather narrow. Femora very 

 stout; tibiae curved, in addition to the (rather strong) terminal 

 hook with a small subapical tooth, strongly ridged above, the 

 ridge of the posterior terminating in an acute tooth, of the 

 anterior in an obtuse one. 



Sympiezoscelus Spencei Waterh., Trans. Ent. Soc. 1853, p. 203; 



Proc. p.l04. 



Reddish-castaneous or piceous-brown, shining. Head, pro- 

 thorax, and elytra with a few stramineous scales scattered about 

 in small spots; scutellum entirely clothed. Under surface and 

 legs sparsely clothed, the mesosternal receptacle, four anterior 

 coxse and tibije more densely so than elsewhere. 



Head sparsely punctate; ocular fovea small, deep, longitudinal. 

 Bostrum shorter than prothorax, very feebly decreasing in width 

 from near base to apex, a groove on each side from base to 

 antennae and another from antennse to near apex; sparsely and 

 moderately strongly punctate towards base, very finely towards 

 apex. Scape stout, inserted at basal third of rostrum, terminated 

 considerably before apex; 1st joint of funicle once and one-half 

 the length of 2nd. Prothorax slightly convex; sparsely and 

 finely punctate, punctures larger in middle than at sides. Elytra 

 striate-punctate; punctures modei-ately large and round; inter- 

 stices convex, regular, wider than punctures, impunctate. Under 



