456 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID^E, xii., 



Genus Hoplodecilaus Lea, I.e. 



HOPLODECILAUS MARMORATUS Lea, l.C, p.85. 



Hab. — West Australia. 



Genus Imaliodes Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1870, p.410. 



Head large and partially concealed. Eyes with facets of variable 

 size. Rostrum moderately long. Scape shorter than funicle; club 

 ovate, subcontinuous with funicle. Prothorax moderately or not 

 at all transverse. Scutellum absent.* Elytra ovate, wider than pro- 

 thorax, shoulders distinctly or not at all produced. Mesostemal 

 receptacle strongly raised, basal portion large; cavernous. Meta- 

 sternum very short; episterna not traceable. Abdomen moderately 

 large, all the sutures very distinct. Legs of variable length ; femora 

 thick or rather thin, grooved and dentate or not; tibia short. 

 Elliptic-ovate, strongly convex, squamose, feebly or not at all 

 tuberculate, apterous. 



This genus is rather closely allied to Poropterus, and, like that 

 genus, is variable in a number of features that are usually constant 

 amongst congeners; the grooved femora will at once distinguish it 

 from Poropterus. I venture to unite Drassicus with Imaliodes, as 

 the character of the shoulders relied on by Mr. Pascoe, appears to 

 be of only specific importance. 



Femora edentate. 



First joint of funicle longer than second edentatus. 



Vice versa /rater. 



Femora dentate. 



Eyes coarsely faceted. 



Shoulders distinctly projecting terreus. 



Shoulders feebly projecting; legs short subfasciatus. 



Shoulders not projecting; legs long ovipennis. 



Eyes finely faceted. 



Elytra nodulose scitulus. 



Elytra spotted nigricomis. 



Imaliodes subfasciatus Pasc; Mast. Cat., Sp.No.5452. 

 Not very densely clothed with brown scales, rather longer on 

 prothorax and legs than elsewhere. 



* /. nodulosus is said to have a scutellum. 



