660 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIOXID^, 



T E P P E K I A, n.g. 



Eyes moderately large, finely faceted, rather widely separated. 

 Rostrum short, wide and feebly curved, Antennce stout; scape 

 inserted nearer apex than base of rostrum and longer than 

 funicle; 1st joint of funicle stout, the others strongly transverse; 

 club stout, almost the length of funicle, sutures oblique. Elytra 

 cordate, wider than prothorax and each separately rounded 

 at base. Mesosternal receptacle feebly raised, semicircular, 

 cavernous. Legs short; tibi?e rather flat, feebly curved, external 

 edge angular. Otlier characters as in Perissops. 



From nearly all the close allies of Perissops this genus may be 

 distinguished by the very short funicle and by each elytron being 

 separately rounded at the base; it is very close to Axio7iicus, but 

 the two characters mentioned are sufficiently distinctive. I have 

 dedicated the genus to Mr. J. G. Otto Tepper, of the South 

 Australian Museum, and the first (so far as I am aware) to 

 attempt to popularise the stud}^ of Australian insects. 



Length 9 mm, or less steradice. 



Length 11 mm. or more major. 



TePPERIA STERCULI.E, n.sp. 



Dark reddish-brown. Yer}^ densely clothed with scales vary- 

 ing from a pale to dark chocolate-brown and interspersed (rather 

 thickl}- at sides of prothorax) with white scales; elytra with a 

 very distinct whitish fascia at summit of posterior declivity, 

 extending between the 5th interstices, the margins more or less 

 indented and bounded anteriorly and posteriorly by darker scales. 

 Under surface and legs with dense whitish scales, becoming- 

 darker (but picked out with white scales) on three apical segments, 

 the tibise and apex of femora. Head and rostrum with jDaler 

 scales than on prothorax, and with white scales (thick on apex of 

 rostrum) rather thinly scattered about. 



Head with dense concealed punctures; towards base with an 

 impressed (but concealed) median line. Rostrum shorter than 

 prothorax, very feebly curved, sides incurved to middle, scarcely 



