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NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN GURGULIONIDiE 



in the Belgian Museum 



AATitli IDescri:ptio3n.s of 3Sre-\Ar SE)ecies 

 by itrthur II. Lea 



PART II 



BRACHYDERIDES 

 530. PRYPNUS ANGUSTUS n. sp. 



(^. Black. More or less densely clothed with ashen scales, inter- 

 spersed with short decumbent setse. 



Head with small, dense, normally concealed punctures. Rostrum 

 with a strong median carina, ending at apex of a shining triangle. 

 Antennae thin, second joint of funicle very slightly longer than 

 first. Prothorax apparently as long as wide, but really slightly 

 transverse (3 1/2 x 4 mill), sides lightly rounded, base not much 

 wider than apex and both truncate, with rather large granules or 

 feeble tubercles, often conjoined so as to cause a vermiculate appea- 

 rance; median line moderately distinct. Scutellum small but 

 distinct. Elytra conjointly very feebly emarginate at base, scarcely 

 wider than widest part of prothorax; basal half subparallel-sided, 

 thence diminishing in width to apex, with series of somewhat 

 irregular, large, oblong punctures; third and fifth interstices feebly 

 raised, the fifth subtuberculate at summit of posterior declivity. 

 Front tibice regularly curved at apex, with a few small setose teeth 

 on lower surface. Length (excluding rostrum), 13-16 1/2 mill. 



$. Differs in being larger, prothorax more transverse, elytra 

 distinctly wider than prothorax at base, and much wider across 

 middle and the legs somewhat shorter. 



Hab. : N. S.Wales, Riverstone (Miss King), Mount Victoria (A. 

 M. Lea), Victoria (National Museum). 



A long narrow species with base of elytra almost truncate, with 

 coarser and less regular sculpture than usual, and with the third 

 interstice very little (sometimes nat at all) raised. The short trans- 

 verse ridges separating the punctures are sometimes irregularly 

 conjoined across several rows. The carina on the rostrum is not 

 interrupted at the apical triangle. On some specimens a few of the 

 scales are slightly golden. 



MEMOIKE8 DE LA SOC. ENTOM. DE BELQIQUE, T. IVIII, 15 IV 1910. 5 



