?oine Australian Cuiculioiiida\ 415 



Densely clothed with whitish, ochreous, and sooty scales, 

 with numerous erect, dark, and rather short setse, scattered 

 about on head, prothorax^ and elytra. 



Head with dense punctures, concealed in front. Rostrum 

 about the length of prothorax, lightly curved; basal half 

 with five cariuae separated by rows of punctures, apical half 

 with moderately dense but not seriate punctures. Autenuse 

 inserted slightly nearer apex than base of rostrum, first 

 joint of funicle stout and moderately long. Prothorax 

 almost as long as wide, sides rather strongly and evenly 

 rounded, base decidedly wider than apex ; with dense, round, 

 concealed punctures. Elytra oblong-cordate, much wider 

 than prothortix, with rows of large, partially concealed 

 punctures ; interstices wide, with small, dense, normally 

 quite concealed punctures. Legs rather long ; femora 

 stout. 



Length 2^-3 mm. 



Ilab. New South Wales [Macleaij Museum), National Park 

 {G.E.Bryant). Tasmania: Huoa River, Mount Wellington 

 {A. M. Lea). 



In general appearance not at all close to the two pre- 

 vioiisly named species {togata and alternatis) known to me. 

 In its elytral setae it approaches the description of setosa, 

 but the two species appear to have little else in common. 

 The male differs from the female in having the rostrum 

 slightly stouter, legs slightly longer, and basal segment of 

 abdomen widely depressed, instead of strongly convex, in 

 middle. 



On the prothorax there are three lines of whitish scales, 

 the surface elsewhere being clothed with more or less 

 ochreous ones. On the elytra the white scales clothe the 

 suture (more noticeably towards the base than elsewhere) 

 and are fairly dense about the middle, but with a linear 

 arrangement; the sooty scales form an elongated sj)ot on 

 the second interstice near base, another beyond the middle, 

 and a third near apex, on the fourth there is an elongated 

 median spot, and on the sixth a small spot just before the 

 middle, but on some specimens there are no dark spots, or 

 only two or four on each elytron. On the rest of the elytra 

 the scales are ochreous, sometimes with a golden, sometimes 

 with a reddish, gloss. On the under surface the scales are 

 usually whitish, sometimes with a greenish gloss. On an 

 occasional specimen the erect setae are nearly white. 



On some of the Tasmanian specimens the dark markings 

 on the elytra are rather more conspicuous than usual, there 

 being elongated median spots on all the even interstices, and 



