Australian CurcuUoividce. 457 



nales, obliquee, infra rostrum et ab oculis desinentes, 

 8capus antennarum sensim incrassatus, oculum vix at- 

 tingens ; funiculus 7-articulatus^ articulis duobus basali- 

 bus longiusculis, primo breviore haud crassiore, cEeteris 

 turbinatis ; clava libera^ breviter ovata. Oculi transversi, 

 parvi, antice approximati, grosse granulati. Prothorax 

 leviter convexus, utrinque ampliato-rotundatus, basi 

 arcuatus, lobis ocularibus nullis. Scutellum deficiens. 

 Elytra late ovata, prothorace paulo latiora, basi introrsum 

 arcuata. Pedes medioeres ; fe'rnora vix incrassata, mu- 

 tica ; tihioR subrectse, intus bisinuatee, apice fortiter mu- 

 cronatee, corbuUs apertis ; tarsi articulo basali triangulari, 

 secundo transverse, tertio paulo latiore, profunde bilobo, 

 ultimo modice elongato ; unguicuU liberi. Mesosternuvi 

 breve. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus ampliatis. 



I refer this genus to the neighbourhood of PUntlms, 

 Germ,, notwithstanding' that the scrobes are oblique, 

 terminating below and away from the eyes. Of the 

 other Australian genera, Steremnius, Schon., unknown to 

 me, has the posterior coxae transverse, a character 

 foreign to the rest of the group, and Psaldus^ has a 

 lateral scrobe terminating in front of the eye, and a scape 

 attaining a line drawn through its middle. 



Opsittis atomaria. 



0. ovata, modice convexa, picea, squamis griseis hinc 

 inde maculatim condensatis adspersa; capite rosti-oque 

 crebre fortiter punctatis ; an tennis piceis, articulo secundo 

 funiculi primo sesquilongiore ; prothorace vix transverse, 

 creberrime subtiliter granulate, in medio linea fere obso- 

 leta notato; elytris latitudine vix sesquilongioribus, 

 sulcato-punctatis, punctis approximatis, interstitiis latis, 

 modice convexis, apice rotundatis ; corpore infra pedi- 

 busque squamis griseis regulariter dispersis. 



Long. 3-31 lin. 



Hah. — King George's Sound. 



* Ante, p. 189, liue 12, the reader is requested to strike out " and from 

 all the other genera of its sub-family ; " the remark was probably intended 

 to apply to the scrobes generally, not to their meeting beneath, which 

 only applies to Liosoma. 



