486 REVISION OP THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULlONID.dE, xii., 



Genus Paletonidistus Lea, I.e., p. 122. 



Paletonidistus trisinuatus Lea, I.e. 

 Hah. — New South Wales. 



Genus Methidrysis Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,1870, 

 p.467. 



Head, with four excavations or foveae. Eyes large, rather coarsely 

 faceted. Rostrum long and thin, strongly curved. Antennce 

 rather slender; scape much shorter than funicle, inserted much 

 closer to base than apex of rostrum. Prothorax subquadrate, sides 

 rounded in front, base bisinuate. Scutellum small and distinct. 

 Elytra wider than prothorax. Mesostemal receptacle feebly 

 raised, emargination U-shaped; cavernous. Metasternal epistema 

 narrow and distinct. Abdomen with sutures deep and straight. 

 Femora stout, dentate, feebly grooved; tarsi thin, third joint not 

 very wide, but deeply bilobed. Elliptic, convex, squamose, tuber- 

 culate, apterous. 



The elytral punctures and granules, the tarsi and the frontal 

 excavation leave no doubt that the genus is rather closely allied to 

 Paleticus, but the abdomen with all the sutures straight and deep, 

 and the very short scape, are decidedly unusual for that position. 



Methidrysis afflicta Pasc.; Mast. Cat., Sp.No.5489. 



Prothorax sparsely clothed with brownish scales, irregular in 

 shape and size ; elytra with similar but larger scales, denser at base 

 and sides, and leaving an almost nude space in middle, sides and 

 apex with longer and paler scales. 



Head with a feeble median carina. Rostrum long and very 

 decidedly curved at base ; with four punctate basal grooves, which 

 are partially concealed, but leave a distinct median carina. Apical 

 two-thirds feebly punctate. Prothorax slightly longer than wide, 

 basal two-thirds almost parallel-sided, and with abrupt walls ; with 

 scattered punctures of moderate size, but each of which contains, 

 and is almost, or quite, concealed by, a scale. Elytra subcordate, 

 about once and one-half the width, and scarcely twice the length 

 of prothorax, with series of distant large punctures or foveae, be- 



