Australian Curculiomdce. 469 



subparallelis marginibusque subcarinatis. Elytra pro- 

 tliorace vix latiora, subparallela, lateribus subito deflecta. 

 Pedes validi ; femora crassa, linearia, subtus dentata ; 

 tihice subflexuGSse, apice uncinatee ; tarsi articulo basali 

 longiusculo, secundo angustiore, tertio bilobo, quarto 

 elongato; wi^mcwZi divergentes. Uima pectoralis pone 

 coxas anticas terminans, apice cavernosa. Abdomen 

 segmentis duobus basalibus ampliatis. 



A broad, somewhat depressed form, resembling some 

 of tlie Colydiidce. It is to be placed among the genera 

 in the vicinity of Tylodes, but it has no very obvious 

 affinity to any of them. 



Niconotiis tarphioides. 



N. late ovatus, sat dense squaraosus, squamis numerosis 

 erectis interjectis, dilute umbrinus, fusco-varius ; capite 

 rostroque rugoso-squamosis ; antennis piceis, articulo se- 

 cundo funiculi prime sesquilongiore ; prothorace valde 

 transverse, utrinque leviter rotundato, basi paulo angus- 

 tiore, supra fusco ; scutello inconspicuo; elytris basi 

 prothorace vix latioribus, deinde paulo ampliatis, in 

 medio leviter incurvatis, apice rotundatis, seriatim grosse 

 punctatis, interstitiis (praesertim postice) alte elevatis, 

 antice in medio paulo planatis, fuscis, pone medium fasciis 

 indistinctis fuscis notatis; corpore infra pedibusque 

 dense dilute umbrino-squamosis. 



Long. 4 lin. 



Hah. — Moreton Bay. 



CniETECTETORUS, Schonherr, Curcul. viii. i. 383. 



There are numerous forms connected with this genus, 

 both Australian and Malayan, and several of these are 

 here described. I have some doubt of the species from 

 which Lacordaire drew up his characters of the genus, 

 as he describes the rostrum as straight, or nearly so, the 

 eyes finely granulate, and the prothorax without ocular 

 lobes ; and he makes no mention of the dilated margins 

 of the prothorax in his otherwise ample description. 

 In treating of the species I think it is necessary to 

 exclude all those which have a straight rostrum, and 



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