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Notes on Australian Cureulionidae in the Berlin Museum. 191 
The celothing is so dense that the derm is everywhere concealed; but the 
autennae, tarsi, tibiae, elytra and sometimes the abdomen, are more or less red, 
the other parts being blackish. On most of the nine specimens before me the 
scales are of a pale muddy brown, with feeble spots or stripes of paler or darker 
scales. On two specimens (and less noticeably on a third) the paler scales have a 
distinct golden gloss. On three specimens there is a pale faseia just before summit 
of posterior declivity, quite distinet to the naked eye, but obseure under a lens. On 
all of the specimens a pale median stripe is present on the prothorax, and sometimes 
a less distinet stripe is present on each side. The setae cause an appearance as 
of a very feeble erest ıbove each eye. The three tubercles on each elytron, at and 
about the summit of posterior declivity, are placed so as to form an equilateral triangle. 
Cleonides. 
141. Lixus tasmanicus, Germ. 
Hylobiides. 
142. Aclees porosus, Pasc. 
143. Eurhamphus fasciculatus, Shuk. 
144. Orthorrhinus cylindrirostris, Fab. 
145. O. Klugii, Pasc. 
146. O. meleagris, Pasc.' 
147. O. aethiops, Boi. 
Erirrhinides. 
148. Meriphus granulatus, n. sp. 
Of a rather light reddish-castaneous; tibiae and base of femora flavous; head, 
prothorax (base and apex excepted), scutellum and sterna deeply infuscate or piceous; 
base and tip of rostrum, club and some spots on elytra more lightly infuscate. 
Moderately densely clothed with fine flavous (in some parts almost golden) setae, 
and which on tlıe prothorax form four feeble but continuous lines from base to apex; 
elytra in addition wit stout suberect setae, each arising from a small granule. 
Head longer than wide. Rostrum thin, feebly curved, about as long as head 
and prothorax combined; with five narrow carinae to middle, with the median one 
continued backward to between the eyes; apical half with fine punctures. Antennae 
thin, two basal joints of funiele elongate, first slightly longer than second. Pro- 
thorax slightly wider than long, base wider than apex, sides gently incurved towards 
base and apex; with a few small granules. Elytra twice the width of prothorax; 
shoulders prominent; sides feebly diminishing from shoulders to near apex, which 
is widely rounded; striate-punctate, punctures fairly large but partially concealed; 
‚suture, third, fifth and seventh interstices each with a row of small granules, second 
fourth and sixth with a few slightly larger and infuscated granules. Femora stout 
and strongly dentate, especially the hind pair; hind tibiae strongly curved. Length 
(exeluding rostrum) 4—4'!/, mm. 
Hab. — Queensland (Berlin Museum); N. S. Wales: Wollongbar (R. Helms) 
