678 REVISION OF TIIK AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID.T:, 



cavernous, Metasternum slightly shorter than the following 

 segment; episterna moderately wide. Abdomen rather small, 

 intercoxal process narrow; suture between 1st and 2nd feebly 

 incurved, between the others slightly curved outwardly; 2nd 

 segment the length of 5th and but little longer than 3rd or 4th. 

 Leys long and thin; femora dentate, not grooved, not passing 

 elytra; tibise slightly compressed, tarsi not very long. Subelliptic, 

 strongly convex, squamose, winged. 



A very remarkable genus, rather closel}^ allied to Protopcdus. 



Orphanistes eustictus, Pasc; I.e. No. 5500. 



^. Black. Clothed with small patches of red scales to which 

 are frequentl}^ joined smaller patches of pale yellow scales, their 

 distribution irregular. 



Head indistinctly punctate. Rostrum longer than prothorax 

 and almost perfectly straight, slightly swollen near base between 

 antennae and near apex; indistinctly punctate on basal half, but 

 with four series of small shining irregular granules, between 

 antenn£e an impunctate shining space, apical half rather coarsely 

 punctate; a shallow groove connecting scrobe with apex. Funicle 

 with the 2nd joint almost thrice the length of 1st and the length 

 of 3rd-5th, 3rd the length of 4th-5th, 4th slightly longer than 5th, 

 5th the length of 7th and slightly longer than 6th, 5th-7th the 

 length of club. Prothorax longer than wide, sides oblique from 

 apex to near base, with large shallow and irregular punctures or 

 fove£e except on each side of apex; with a very distinct continuous 

 median carina which becomes strongly elevated in front, each 

 side of apex with a short shining ridge; prosternum largely trans- 

 versely excavated between coxse and apex, the derm (except 

 towards side and near canal which is here less than half the 

 depth that it is between the coxie) highly polished and impunc- 

 tate. Scutellum slightly transverse and velvet}'. Ely Ira about 

 twice the length of prothorax, each separately rounded at base 

 which is considerably wider than prothorax, shoulders projecting, 

 behind them regularly and strongly decreasing in width to apex; 

 seriate-punctate, punctures large and subquadrate but shallow 



