Mr. Kirby's Century of Insects. 431 



Antenna: iiitcgrcC, capitata-: clava triarticulata ; arliculis arctis- 



sinie connexis. 

 Corpus oblongo-ovatum. 

 Thorax subglobosus. 



The insect, which is the type of this genus, is altogether of the 

 habit of the CurcuUonidce fractkornes brevirostres, particularly Cur- 

 culio aspcr, 3cc. : but its unbroken antenn8e place it in this sec- 

 tion, from all the genera of which it is toto ccclo different. I found 

 it in a collection of New Holland insects which I once purchased. 



cristata. 69. Rh. 



Platk XXII. Fig. 9- 



Long. corp. (Rostro excluso) lin. 4f. 



Habitat in Australasia. 

 Corpus oblongo-ovatum, subtus squamulis pallidum, supra gri- 

 seum. Caput postice convexum, antice inter oculos crista 

 squamoso-patlida tetragona : vertice quadruplici lobis subhe- 

 misphaericis. Rostruryi capitis fere longitudine crassum, rec- 

 tum, deflexum, tetragonum, la^vissimum, glaberrimum, niti- 

 dum, nigrum, apice subtus utrinque dente triangulari acuto ar- 

 matum, basi constrictum strangulatum, ante antennas eleva- 

 tum. Antenna rostro basi utrincjue insidentes, articulo primo- 

 reliquis paulo crassiori, longitudine secundi, his duobus excep- 

 tis, qui et subclavati, articuli reliqui longitudine fere aequales 

 sunt, tertio subcylindrico, proximis quinque obconicis, ultimis 

 tribus paulo majoribus capitulum arete imbricatum lanceola- 

 tum effbrmantibus. OcuU prominuli, subtriangulares, distincte 

 reticulati. Thorax subglobosus, ex punctis contluentibus, no- 

 dulis intermixtis, scaber. Elytra subsulcata, squamosa : sulcis 

 punctis ocellaribus albis ornatis, interstitiis serie setarum de- 

 cumbentium et granulorum altcrnorum, notandis. In prona 



corporis 



