BY ARTHUR M. LKA. 479 



Genus Brachyporopterus Lea, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 



1907, p.182. 



The two known species of this genus may be thus tabulated : — 

 Second segment of abdomen transversely depressed in middle apicigriseus. 

 Second segment not so depressed vermiculatus. 



Brachyporopterus apicigriseus Lea, I.e., p. 182. 

 Hab. — King Island. 



Brachyporopterus vermiculatus Lea, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 

 1912, p.110. 

 Hab. —New South Wales. 



Genus Euryporopterus Lea, Mem. Soc. Ent. Beige, xvi., 



1908, p.171. 



The known species of this genus may be tabulated thus : — 



Abdomen with second segment small tenuifasciatus. 



Abdomen with second segment large 



Elytra tuberculate annulipes. 



Elytra non-tuberculate. 



Shoulders rounded funereus. 



Shoulders oblique angularis. 



Euryporopterus annulipes Pasc; Mast. Cat., Sp. No. 5486. 

 Petosiris annulipes Pasc. 



Derm entirely concealed by small sooty scales; on the pro- 

 thorax, stouter scales scattered about, and forming six more or 

 less distinct fascicles. Under surface and legs with whitish 

 scales scattered about, and forming a distinct ring on each of the 

 tibiae, and two on each of the femora. 



Rostrum rather stout and curved ; basal half with coarse 

 normally concealed punctures, apical half shining and with rather 

 coarse punctures. Prothorax with" four rather large obtuse 

 tubercles across middle. Elytra considerably wider than pro- 

 thorax, shoulders tuberculiform; with tubercles of various sizes 

 and shapes, the largest on each side of scutellar region; with 

 series of large subquadrate punctures, becoming smaller and 

 rounded posteriorly. Femora moderately stout, in male feebly 

 dentate, in female edentate. Length, 5 \-l \ mm. 



