Australian CurciiUonidai. 483 



subrobusto, extrorsuni latiore, in medio carinulato, 

 squainulis erectis instructo; antennis testaceo - piceis, 

 vage pilosis; prothorace latitudine longitudine eequali, 

 utrinque paulo rotundato, supra rugoso-foveolato, apice 

 fortitei' producto, sub-bilobo ; scutello albescente ; elytris 

 striato-punctatis, punctis grossis, interstitiis tertio quinto 

 et septimo elevatis, tertio alte elevatOj eminentiis apicem 

 versus evanescentibus, plaga magna fusca supra nigro- 

 marginata lateribus decoratis; corpore infra pedibusque 

 griseo-squamosis, abdomine in medio denudato,, fusco. 



Long, 4^ lin. 



Ilah. — Queensland (Wide Bay). 



Phlcegglymma, n. g. 



Bostrum tenue, subcylindricum, paulo arcuatum ; scrohcs 

 prsemediange, ante oculos exeuntes. 8cajjus brevis^ ocu- 

 lum vix attingens ; funiculus 7-articulatus, articulis duo- 

 bus basalibus longiusculis, casteris brevibus; clava dis- 

 tincta, oblongo-ovalis. Oculi laterales, subrotundati, 

 tenue granulati. Prothorax subconicus^ apice productus, 

 basi bisinuatus, lobis ocularibus parvis projectis. 8cutel- 

 lum minutum. Elytra modice convexa^ prothorace latiora, 

 humeris prominulis, lateribus perparum rotundata. Fe- 

 mora elongata, vix incrassata, infra dentata; tihi(B 

 perbreves, rectae, apice vmcinatae ; tarsi breves, articulo 

 basali triangulari ; imguiculi divaricati. Rima pectoralis 

 inter coxas intermedias protensa, apice aperta. Abdomen 

 segmento secundo ampliato. Processus intercoxalis sat 

 angustus, antice angulatus. 



In Lacordaire's arrangement, this genus would come 

 next to Enteles, but in habit it resembles Mecistostylus 

 Douei. The short tibise and tarsi, and the projecting 

 apex of the prothorax, together with the elongate pectoral 

 canal, are its most prominent diagnostic characters. 



Phloeoglymma alternans. 



P. ovata, nigra, sat dense griseo-squamulosa ; fronte 

 convexa, inter oculos planiuscula, fovea oblongainstructa; 

 rostro capite fere duplo longiore, nigro, nitido, subtiliter 

 vage punctulato; antennis testaceo-piceis ; prothorace 

 utrinque perparum rotundato, vittis tribus dilutioribus 



