some Australian Cuiculioniclse. 473 



but the clothing is rather denser. On the prothorax there 

 is an obscure dark line on each side of the middle ; on the 

 elytra the suture is clothed with whitish scales, and there is 

 an irregularly transverse or zigzag series of pale spots or 

 short lines across the middle ; the shoulders and preapical 

 callosities are also clothed with whitish scales. On the 

 under surface some of the scales have a slight silvery or 

 coppery gloss. 



Micrao7iychus sordidus, sp. n. 



Of a dingy reddish brown ; base of rostrum, f unicle, club, 

 and tarsi black. Densely clothed with muddy-grey scales, 

 feebly variegated with paler ones on elytra, under surface, 

 and legs. 



Rostrum long and thin, with very minute punctures. 

 Protliorax lightly transverse ; with dense, noi-mally con- 

 cealed punctures. Elytra not very narrow, parallel-sided to 

 beyond the middle ; with rows of large, almost entirely con- 

 cealed punctures ; third interstice slightly elevated at base, 

 near middle, and at summit of posterior declivity. Under 

 surface with dense, normally concealed punctures. 



Length 2| mm. 



Uab. Queensland: Brisbane [H. W. Cox). 



A rather robust species and the largest of the genus. 

 The type has the prothorax somewhat abraded, but its com- 

 paratively large size and slight inequalities of the third 

 interstice (some of the others are also slightly uneven) 

 should prevent its being confused with the other species.. 



MecMstocerus cancellatus, Lea. Kuranda. 

 M. duplicatus, Lea. Kuranda. 

 Tepperia sterculia, Lea. Baan Baa. 

 Poropterus lithodennus, Boi. Kuranda. 

 P. astheniatus, Lea. Blue Mountains. 

 P. intermedins, Lea. Kuranda. 

 P. orthodoxus , Lea. lUawarra. 

 Microporopterus regularis, Lea. Blue Mountains. 

 Salens elevatus, Pasc. Kuranda. 

 Lnaliodes ovipennis. Lea. Kuranda. 

 /. subfasciatus, Pasc. lUawarra, Blue Mountains. 

 Tentegia ingrata, Faust. Kuranda. 

 Ann, & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xv. 32 



