Australian Curculionidce. 199 



Myossita rtifula, the type of the genus, has much the 

 appearance of a starved specimen of Tranes Vigorsii,^oh. ; 

 it is, however, allied to Meriphus and Orpha, differing 

 from the former in the short basal joint of the tarsi, and 

 from the latter in the contiguity of its anterior coxse. 



AMALACTIN^. 



Teanes, Schonherr, Cure. vii. 2, p. 129. 



Tranes monopticus. 



T. elongatus, niger, subnitidus, setulis minutis rarissi- 

 mis adspersus ; capite parvo ; oculis infra conjunctis ; 

 rostro mediocri, scrobibus apicem versus incipientibus ; 

 scapo antennarum oculum vix attingente, funiculo brevius- 

 culo ; prothorace parvo, subtiliter sat remote punctato, 

 latei'ibus rotundato ; scutello minuto, rotundato ; elytris 

 fuscis, prothorace multo latioribus, striato-punctatis, 

 punctis parvis, approximatis, interstitiis planatis, valde 

 remote et subtilissime punctulatis ; corpore infra nitido, 

 confertim punctato; pedibus fuscis; coxis anticis con- 

 tiguis; femoribus subdentatis. 



Long. 5 lin. 



Hah.' — Queensland. 



The eyes in this species are not only contiguous beneath, 

 but there is no break in the continuity, the facets being 

 freely interposed on both sides. 



Tranes internatus. 



T. oblongo-ovatus, paulo depressus, niger, subnitidus ; 

 capite rostroque basi sat fortiter et confertim punctatis ; 

 oculis infra contiguis ; prothorace utrinque antice valde 

 postice minus rotundato, in medio linea angusta sub-ob- 

 soleta notato, supra crebre sat fortiter punctato, punctis 

 setuliferis ; scutello subrotundato, basi constricto ; elytris 

 fuscis, prothorace basi paulo latioribus, sulcatis, suicis 

 catenato-punctatis, interstitiis latis, convexis, corrugato- 

 punctatis, setulis minutis valde adspersis; propectore 

 emarginato, margine aureo-ciliato ; corpore infra nitido, 

 remote punctato, punctis setuliferis ; femoribus crassis, 

 infra excisis, non dentatis. 



Long. 5 lin. 



Hab. — Queensland, 



