BY AKTHUH M. LEA. 429 



Jjab. — New South Wales (type in Macleav Museum). 



Tlie sliape is somewhat as in tlie preceding species, but the 

 clothing is very different (althoiigli the fascicles are almost in the 

 xnne positions), the femora are edentate and the rostrum is much 

 -lioi I. 1. Although Mr. Pascoe in describing the genus notesthe 

 tVinora as edentate, this is the only species here described in 

 %\ hich such is the case. 



Genus S v B u L u s Pascoe. 



Jourii. Linn. 8oc. 1871, p. 202. 



The species described below certainly belongs to the genus 

 Si/buhis, now first recorded from Australia, but as Mr. Pascoe 

 sta'es that at least six species of the genus occur in the Malay 

 Archipelago, and he describes, the femora as being uni- or bi- 

 <]entate, I have not thought it advisable to give a generic 

 diagnosis based on but one Australian species. The chief generic 

 features of this species, however, are its large and coarsely faceted 

 eyes, long and thin rostrum, longish subc3'lindrical club, the 

 sutures of which are oblique, U-shaped and slightly cavernous 

 mesosternal receptacle and distinctly bidentate femora. There 

 appears to be no closely allied genus in Australia; Mr. Pascoe 

 regarded it as being allied to Pezichus, but its connection with 

 that genus is decidedly remote. 



Sybulus Yorkensis, n.sp. 



Black, anieiiiue of a rather light red, club darker. Rather 

 iensely clothed with scales varying from white to dingy black, 

 but the majority of a rather dark fawn, scales larger and more 

 rounded on prothorax than on elytra. Under surface moderately 

 ■lothed with whitish scales; legs densely clothed with dingy scales. 

 Head and base of rostr.um with feebly variegated scales. 



Head with dense concealed punctures. Rostrum longer than 



prothorax, rather strongly curved, thin and feebly decreasing in 



idth from base; basal fifth strongly punctate, elsewhere highly 



•lished and impunctate. Scape inserted nearer base than apex 



1" rostrum and shorter than funicle; two basal joints of funicle 



