460 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONIDiE, XlL, 



Genus Scolyphrus Pascoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xiii., 1874, 

 p.413. 



Head small. Eyes moderately faceted. Prothorax flat or almost 

 so. Scutellum absent. Elytra subovate, base trisinuate. Meso- 

 sternal receptacle thick, feebly raised, cavernous. Metasternum 

 narrow, episterna rather wide, but narrow in middle, inner projec- 

 tion almost absent. Abdomen large; two basal segments very 

 large, suture distinct only at sides, but traceable across middle. 

 Legs rather long and not very thin; femora edentate, feebly 

 grooved; tarsi thin, third joint no wider than second. Apterous. 



In S. obesus, the eyes are rather finely, in S. semipunctatus rather 

 coarsely faceted. The narrow tarsi will suffice to distinguish the 

 genus from most of the allies of Poropterusj from that genus it 

 may be distinguished by the soldering together of the two basal 

 segments of abdomen. Both species appear to be rare; they are 

 dull black, the antennae only being feebly diluted with red. 



Prothorax as long as wide obesus. 



Prothorax transverse semipunctatus. 



Scolyphrus obesus Pasc; Mast. Cat., Sp.No.5448. 



Rather sparsely clothed with stout scales, forming feeble clusters 

 on prothorax and elytra. 



Rostrum with a moderately distinct median carina; with moder- 

 ately large but irregular and shallow punctures. Prothorax some- 

 what angular, as long as wide ; disc without, the sides with, shallow 

 punctures. Elytra ovate, much wider than prothorax, basal third 

 or fourth with large punctures of which the largest are basal, and 

 the next largest sutural. Length, 18 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland : Port Denison and Bowen. 



A large dingy insect with peculiar elytral punctures, and with 

 the prothorax shaped as in many of the species belonging to Pale- 

 ticus. 



Scolyphrus semipunctatus, n.sp. 

 Moderately densely clothed with scales of a dingy brown, but 

 uniform shade ; upper surface with stout scales scattered about, and 

 one in each puncture. 



