204 AUSTRALIAN PSELAPttlDJi 



elytris vix latius, longitudine sequali, segmento primo dorsali 

 valde transverso, mediocri. 



£. Trochanterics anticis nodosis. Metasternum obsolete 

 totum longitudinaliter depressum. Segmenti secundi ventralis 

 margine apicali medio tuberculo urinuto compresso prsedito. 

 Femoribus incrassatis. Long. 1-80-1-90 mm. 



This species is closely allied to bicolor, and the difference of 

 colouration would be of very little value; but the antennae are 

 longer and the 9-10 joints obconic, whilst they are nearly globose 

 in bicolor; the elytra are longer, much less narrowed at the base; 

 the abdomen is longer and not so broad; the last joint of the 

 maxillary palpi has no trace whatever of a peduncle, but is more 

 elongate and more cylindrical than in bicolor, but not flagelliform 

 as in atriventris. I think it is really a distinct species. 



Clarence River, N.S.W. (Mr. A. M. Lea). 



I have a specimen from Tasmania which does not differ 

 materially, yet the prothorax is a little more regularly ovate and 

 the femora are stouter. 



Genus Curculionellus, Westwood. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1S70, ii. p. 127. 



This genus is very distinct, having the maxillary palpi shorter, 

 with the last joint nearly cylindrical ; the first joint of the 

 antenna? is long, the head is very elongate and the pi*othorax 

 shorter. 



This genus extends from Australia to Northern New Guinea 

 and Java. 



Curculionellus punctatus, King. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S.W. i. 1865, p. — : angulicollis, Westw., 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1870, ii. p. 127; Thes. Ent. Oxon. PI. 4, 

 f. 5. 



This large and fine species is well known. In the £ the 

 metasternum is deeply sulcate in the middle and obsoletely 

 carinate on each side; the 2nd ventral segment bears on the 

 posterior edge a somewhat square and flattened prominence. 



Sydney, N.S.W. 



