some Australian Curculionidije. 417 



PhAUNjEUS. 



This genus was doubtfully referred to the Zygopides. A 

 re-exaniiuation of the charaeters of the types, together \\\i\\ 

 those of a second species taken by Mr. Bryant and a third 

 from the Macleay Museum, convinces me that the genus 

 should probably be referred to the Erirhinides. The scrobes 

 were originally described as '^ lateral," but they are rather 

 peculiar, being obliquely and rapidly turned under the 

 rostruiu. On each side above the scrobe and having a 

 common starting-point with it, there is a distinct groove, 

 continuous to the eye, that at first appears to be the real 

 scrobe (ranch as in Rhachiochs and Eucosmia cornuta, but 

 not in the other species of the latter genus), and is alike 

 in all three species. 



Regarding the genus as belonging to the Erirhinides, in 

 Mr. Blackburn^s table of the genera of that subfamily, the 

 falcate front tibiDS would associate it with CEnochroma and 

 Olbiodorus, from both of which it is readily distinguished 

 by the short claw-joint. It is really, however, nut very close 

 to either of those genera, nor to any other of the subfamily 

 kuown to me. 



Phauneeus trilinealbus, sp. n. 



Black, shining. White scales forming tliree narrow lines 

 on prothorax (the lateral ones not quite to base, the median 

 one not quite to apex), narrowing, clothing the suture at 

 base and apex, dense on parts of sterna, forming a line on 

 the under surface of each of the four front femora, and 

 on the upper surface of the hind four, and fairly dense on 

 tarsi and tips of the tibiae. Numerous black setse on legs 

 and on parts of the upper surface. 



Head with fairly dense small punctures. Rostrum thin, 

 slightly longer than prothorax ; with dense punctures, be- 

 hind the anteunse seriate in arranoement, and on the sides 

 separated by acute ridges. Antennae inserted about one- 

 fourth from apex of rostrum, two basal joints of funicle 

 moderately long, first longer and stouter than second. 

 Prothorax strongly convex, slightly longer than wide, sides 

 evenly rounded ; with dense, clearly defined punctures of 

 moderate size. Elytra subcordate, strongly convex, about 

 once and one-half the width of prothorax, with rows of deep 

 punctures in narrow striae. Legs long; front tibiae strongly 

 curved. 



Length 2^-3 mm. 



Hub. New South Wales : Illawarra. 



