Australian Curcultonidce. 209 



race latioi'a. Pedes mediocres; femora ampla, com- 

 pressa^ prsesertim postica, mutica ; tibice breves, rectae, 

 apice uuco obliquo armatee ; tarsi modice dilatati, articulo 

 ultimo elongato ; tingiiicuU tenues, liberi. Mesosternum 

 laminatum. Metasternum brevissiraum. Abdomen seg- 

 mentis tertio quartoque conjunctim secundo brevio- 

 ribus. 



This genus also is to be placed near Sympiezoscehis, 

 without being very closely allied either to it or to the 

 preceding. The plate formed by the mesosternum^ and 

 bounding posteriorly the pectoral canal, is large and 

 deeply vertical, and shows no trace of the vaulted 

 structure. 



Ampagia erinacea. (Pi. V. fig. 1.) 



A. breviter elliptica, valde convexa, fusca, nitida, 

 squamis nigris opacis validis erectis vestita; rostro 

 apicem versus latiore, subvage punctato ; antennis pallide 

 ferrugineis ; prothorace confertim squamoso ; elytris 

 minus squamosis, pone humeros latioribus, deinde gra- 

 datim rotundatis, tenuiter sulcatis, interstitiis latis, pla- 

 natis ; pedibus squamulosis, femoribus posticis valde 

 compressis, margine superno acute producto. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



Hab. — King George's Sound. 



XIV. Further descriptions of Australian Curculionidse. 

 By Fbancts P. Pascoe, F.L.S., &c. 



[Eead 6th June, 1870.] 



By way of supplement to the preceding paper, I beg to 



add the three following new species. 



1. Cherrus vestittis (Leptopin^) . 



2. Mecopus tipidarius (Zygopin^). 



3. Alcides heilipoides (ALCiDiNiB) . 



LEPTOPIN^. 



Cheeeus, Schonherr, Cure. Disp. p. 89. 



Cherrus vestitus. 



C. oblongus, fuscus, squamulis aureo-fulvis dense 

 tectus : fronte capitis perparum convexa ; rostro tricari- 



