410 Mr. A. M. Lea on 



Empolis granulatus, sp. n. 



(J . Black, antennse (club darker) and legs more or less 

 o£ a dingy red. Moderately clothed with white or whitish 

 setee, becoming thin scales on sides. 



Head with dense punctures. Rostrum moderately long, 

 thin, and curved ; with dense punctures ; with a distinct 

 median carina from antennae to base, and some less distinct 

 ones. Antennae thin, inserted one-fourth from apex of 

 rostrum, Prothorax about as long as wide, sides strongly 

 rounded, base slightly wider than apex; with dense round 

 punctures. Elytra distinctly wider than prothorax, paralhl- 

 sided to beyond the middle ; with rows of angular punctures 

 in deep strise ; interstices wider than strise, with numerous 

 punctures and small granules. Abdomen with a vague de- 

 pression common to two basal segments, with a vague 

 median line filled with somewhat darker setse than elsewhere 

 from base to apex, second segment distinctly shorter than 

 fifth. 



Length 3|-5 mm. 



? . Differs in having the rostrum longer and thinner, 

 with smaller punctures ; antenna3 inserted one-third from 

 apex of rostrum ; abdomen without a median line, and 

 second segment distinctly longer than fiftli. 



Hab. New South Wales : Blue Mountains (G. E. Bnjant), 

 Gusford(^. W. Cox). 



In general appearance resembling several species of 

 Desiantha, but with the generic characters of Emjjoiis ; from 

 the described species of the latter genus it differs in being 

 considerably larger and very differently clothed. Most 

 specimens have the derm of the upper surface black, but on 

 a few it is more or less distinctly diluted with red. On the 

 under surface of the head and on the front of the prosternuni 

 the scales sometimes have a faint golden gloss. The scales 

 nowhere form spots on any of the thirteen typical specimens. 



In Mr. Blackburn's table of the Erirhinides Epacticus and 

 Eucosmia are separated from Etiiopea and Emjwlis by the 

 fifth abdominal segment being shorter than the second in the 

 former and longer than the second in the latter. These 

 segments, however, are sexually variable. By the table in 

 question the male of Empolis leai would be referred to the 

 second group and its female to the first. The same is the 

 case with the present species. The claws have a swelling at 

 the base, but 1 think the genus was correctly referred to the 

 Erirhinides. 



