BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 301 



across middle, which if united, would form an inverted cross; 

 elytra with a patch about scutellum, from the shoulders oblique 

 to about the middle, then feebly widening for a short distance 

 and terminated about the apical 4th, apex slightly pubescent, 

 6th-8th interstices slightly pubescent at apical third, and 8th-9th 

 behind shoulders; under surface with moderately dense pubescence 

 at sides, sparser and greyer in the middle. 



Eyes large, almost touching. Rostrum moderately long, curved, 

 shining, cylindrical, rather finely punctate. First joint of funicle 

 thick, transverse, distinctly longer than 2nd; club as long as 

 funicle. Prothorax bulged out in the middle, a longitudinal 

 impression at base and apex, and a transverse one on each side of 

 middle. Scutellum rounded, shining. Elytra moderately long, 

 interstices transversely granulate. Pygidium carinate. Under- 

 surface strongly convex; inteiniiediate segments of abdomen with 

 ver}^ distinct sutui-es. Femoral tooth very small, claw joint of 

 tarsi moderately prominent. Length 3|, rostrum |; width l^mm. 

 Range of variation very slight. 



/7a6.— Clifton, Galston, Forest Reefs, KS.W. 



In build resembling carinicollis, but somewhat narrowei', and 

 without the shining prothoracic carina so distinct in that species. 

 In one specimen I possess the patch of elytral pubescence is much 

 smaller; it only extends to about the basal third, with a few spots 

 about the apical third near the suture, and two very small spots 

 on the 8th interstice. 



L.EMOSACCUS FUNBRBUS, Pasc; Mast. Cat.^ Sp. No. 5325. 



1 have a male insect from Armidale which agrees very well with 

 Mr. Pascoe's description of this species, except that the rostrum 

 and legs (tarsi excepted) are black; but as both these are liable 

 to sexual variation of colour, and Pascoe's specimen may have 

 been a female, I have considered it inadvisable to describe it as 

 new. Length 3|^, rostrum ^; width 1|- mm. 



L.EM0SA.CCUS DTTBIUS, n.sp. 



2 '2 Black; antennee red, club and tarsi reddish-piceous. Under 

 surface and legs microscopically pubescent. 



