some Australimi Cuiculioiiidee. 399 



Head with small concealed punctures. Eyes prominent, 

 widely separated. Rostrum short and thick ^ scarcely longer 

 than greatest width, with dense, more or less concealed 

 punctures. Prothorax small, about as long as wide, sides 

 moderately rounded, base about one-third wider than apex ; 

 with dense, normally concealed punctures, and with 

 remnants of a feeble median carina. Elytra much wider 

 than prothorax, shoulders obliquely rounded and with 

 numerous granules, each side near base Avith an obtuse 

 granulated swelling, apex very obtusely mucronate ; with 

 rows of lai'ge and usually concealed punctures ; third, fifth, 

 and seventh interstices with granulated elevations. Meso- 

 sterniim with an obtusely pointed intercoxal process. Legs 

 stout ; tibiae with numerous small teeth, less distinct on the 

 hind pair than on the others. 



Length 10 mm. 



Hub. Queensland : Thursday Island. 



In general appearance much like a Gonipferus, but with the 

 intercoxal process of 0.i;t/ops*. To the naked eye the upper 

 surface appears to be 7"ather densely and irregularly clothed 

 with greyish-white scales, with darker spots on the elytra. 

 The dark spots, however (of which the most conspicuous 

 one appears like a transverse interrupted median fascia, 

 although there is one almost as distinct behind the shoulder), 

 are due partly to the scales there being smaller than else- 

 where, but principally to being densely covered with a snufF- 

 coloured meal or powder. The third interstice is obtusely 

 tuberculate near base, with a longitudinal elevation before 

 middle and a shorter one beyond same, the two latter being 

 conspicuously separated by the silvery scales of the fascia. 

 The elevations and granules on the other odd interstices are 

 less conspicuous. 



Oxyops grisea, sp. n. 



Black. Densely clothed with silvery-white scales, but 

 elytra with a conspicuously mottled, appearance. 



Head with a deep but partially concealed impression 

 between eyes, elsewhere with small concealed punctures. 

 Eyes prominent and widely separated. Rostrum short, 

 about as long as greatest width (which is near apex) ; with 

 dense punctures, concealed on basal half. Prothorax sxadW, 

 about as long as wide, sides moderately rounded and de- 

 creasing in width almost from base to apex; with dense, 



* Iq Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1897, p. 600, this process was erro- 

 neously referred to as if it belonged to the metasternuni; instead of to the 

 mesosternum. 



