426 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new Genera of Curculionide. 
carinato et albo vario; scutello albo; elytris prothorace angustioribus, 
ad humeros arcte applicatis, sulcatis, interstitiis rugoso-granulatis, 
apice conjunctim rotundatis ; basi et postice griseo subfasciatis ; cor- 
pore infra pedibusque fuscis, disperse griseo-squamulosis, tibiis anticis 
intus apice fimbriatis ; femoribus posticis subtus dentatis, Long. (rost. 
incl.) 10 lines, 
Hab, Queensland, 
ASYTESTA. 
Rostrum longiusculum, subteres, fere rectum ; scrobe lineari ad angulum 
inferum oculi exeunte. Oculdi mediocres, ovati, infra acuminati. -An- 
tenneé tenues, medio rostri insert; scapo oculum haud attingente ; 
funiculo 7-articulato, art. basali longiusculo, secundo paulo breviore ; 
clava breviter ovata. Prothorax amplus, base truncatus, antice an- 
gustus, lateribus rotundatus, lobis ocularibus latis, ciliatis; canalis 
pectoralis inter pedes intermedios antice desinens. Scutellwm parvum, 
Elytra subtrigonata, prothorace non latiora, convexa. Pedes elongati, 
tenuati; femoribus subarmatis; tibiis fere rectis, uncinatis; tarsis 
longiusculis, articulis duobus basalibus ciliatis, penultimo bilobo, infra 
spongioso, ultimo biunguiculato. Coxe, preesertim postice, valde di- 
stantes. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus majoribus, connatis. 
Processus interfemoralis antice subangulatus. 
There is a great similarity between this and the Chilian genus 
Ehyephenes, Schon., from which it will be at once distinguished 
(inter alia) by its “ vibrisse” or ciliated ocular lobes. It is also 
allied to Arachnobas, Bois., notwithstanding that the latter has no 
pectoral canal. Just as Asytesta humeralis is a Rhyephenes cacicus 
in miniature, so a second species of Asytesta bears a most striking 
resemblance in the distribution of its white stripes (on a black 
ground) to Arachnobas gazella, Ol, 
Asytesta humeralis. (Pl. XVII. fig. 13.) 
A, ovata, nigra, opaca; capite fronte depresso; rostro in medio supra 
rugoso-punctato; antennis ferrugineis, nitidis; clava murino-pubes- 
cente ; prothorace elytris paulo latiore, confertim scrobiculato, granulis 
numerosis nitidis dispersis; elytris brevibus, lateribus basi parallelis, 
rugoso-sulcatis, interstitiis granulis nitidis instructis, sulcis exterioribus 
foveolatis, regione humerali macula magna albo-squamosa; corpore 
infra pedibusque squamis minutis griseis dispersis. Long. 3 lin. 
Hab, Moluccas, 
THYESTETHA. 
Characteres fere ut in Arachnoba, sed canalis pectoralis adest inter pedes 
posticos protensus; core antice et intermediz contigue ; et femora 
infra canaliculata. 
These characters are, I think, sufficient to separate generically the 
