some Australian Curcullouidse. 471 



Third interstice slightly elevated in parts sordidvs. 



Third interstice not so elevated. 



Rostrum black nigrirostris. 



Rostrum red. 



Elytra distinctly spotted viaculatus. 



Elytra not distinctly spotted. 



Clothing of upper surface mostly sooty casuarince. 



Clothing of upper surface mostly pale decipiens. 



Micraonychus decipiens, sp. n. 



Dull red ; funicle, club, and tarsi black. Clothed with 

 more or less whitish scales. 



Rostrum the length of prothorax ; with rather small punc- 

 tures. Prothorax about as long as wide, sides moderately 

 rounded, with dense, normally concealed jDunctures. Klytra 

 elongate, parallel-sided to near apex ; with rows of large, 

 partially concealed punctures, in feeble striee. Under sur- 

 face with dense and rather coarse, but normally more or less 

 concealed punctures. 



Length 2-2^ mm. 



Hub. Tasmania : Hobart. New South Wales : Mount 

 Victoria {A. M. Lea), Blue Mountains [E. W. Ferguson). 



On old or abraded specimens the clothing of the upper 

 surface is of a more or less dingy grey, but on ones in good 

 condition it is white or stramineous. On the prothorax it is 

 denser along middle than elsewhere ; on the elytra the scales 

 on some of the interstices are dense and obliquely overlap, 

 as on Misophrice alternata. On the sides of the sterna the 

 clothing is denser than elsewhere, and is usually silvery in 

 appearance, but occasionally with a faint purplish or greenish 

 gloss. The scales ou the legs also are sometimes faintly 

 glossed with green or purple. In the female the rostrum is 

 slightly longer than in the male and its punctures are even 

 less distinct. 



Micraonychus nigrirostris, sp. n. 



Black. Densely clothed with large, round, and usually 

 pale scales. 



Length l|-2 mm. 



Hab. Tasmania : Hobart. New South "Wales : National 

 Park, Sydney, Mount Victoria {A. M. Lea). 



Bather smaller than the preceding species, but with the 

 shape of the prothorax and elytra and the punctures the 

 same, but differing in the colour and clothing. From all 

 others of the genus it is readily distinguished by its entirely 

 black rostrum. The scape is not quite as dark as the rest of 



