2ii4 Arthur M. Lea : 



MORDELLIDAE. 



Mordellisfeiia Innyipes, Lea.i 

 This name will stand, as, although it is the .same as jiicunda 

 Champ, 2 that name was previously used for a New Zealand spet-ies 

 of MordellisfenaJ 



Mordella promincua, Er. 



I have seen the type of this species. It appears to be a small and 

 partially abraded specimen of communis, Wath. 



CUROULIONIDAK. 



Polyphvades hiplagiatus, Pasc. 

 Mr. Arrow confirmed my identification of specimens from King 

 George's Sound as belonging to this species. Mr. Pascoe no doubt 

 wrongly recorded the species from Queensland. 



yeosi/o</r/us cordipeniiis. Lea. 

 Tliere are eight specimens of this species in the Queensland 

 Museum from Mudgerbah (Queensland). The types were found 

 attacking cultivated ferns; so that a genuine locality record for 

 Australia is of interest. 



Atelirus atrophiis, Pasc. 



There are before me six specimens, that I refer to this species, but 

 no two are exactly alike in size or colour. The type was described 

 as having the middle of the elytra pale, and the posterior declivity 

 with a ring of scales; with these characters a specimen from Mount 

 Wellington agrees, a specimen from Hillgrove (New South Wales) 

 also agrees, but the rest of its surface is much darker than the 

 mountain one. Four other specimens have the derm of the elytra 

 quite uniform in tint, and the club black. Of these one has the 

 apical ring complete but simple; two others have the rings com- 

 plete, but with inner markings as well, whilst the fourth (from 

 Gippsland), has a complete ring on the declivity of each elytron. 

 This specimen also has a complete median prothoracic stripe. All 

 these specimens have the fifth intestice slightly thickened, and 



1. Proc. I.inn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1895, p. 30:{ ; (lesc-ril)ed as a Monletla. 



2. Tiaris. Kiit. Soc. Loud., 1895, p. 272. 



.•). liiomi, Man. of the N.Z. Col., 1880, p. 415. 



