the Australian Curculionidse. 279 



scutello rotutidato, subtiliter fusco-squamoso ; elytris postice 

 gradatim angustioribus, seriatim curvato-tuberculatis, interstitiis 

 leviter impresso-punctatis, declivitate dense albo-squamosis, sin- 

 gulis tuberculoconico postice instructis, apieibus obtuse mucronatis; 

 corpore infra pedibusque dense fusco-squamosis, albido variis. 

 Long. 6|-7 lin. 



Hah. Sydney. 



Readily known from 2E. notabilis by its concolorous dis- 

 persed scales, except on the declivity of the elytra, which is 

 densely covered with pure white scales. Mr. Masters informs 

 me that it is "very destructive to introduced conifers." 



jEsiotes morosus. 



JE. oblongus, niger, subnudus ; fronte ut in praecedente ; capite inter 

 oculos rostroque irregulariter lineatim impressis, hoc in medio 

 crista compressa instructo ; antennis pallide setosis ; funiculo ar- 

 ticulis duobus basalibus longiusculis, caeteris subtransversis, haud 

 moniliformibus ; clava breviter ovata ; prothorace latitudine ses- 

 quilongiore, supra tuberculis plerumque magnis, modice elevatis, 

 apice duobus apicalibus cristiformibus, munito ; scutello rotundato, 

 squamis piliformibus silaceis dense vestito ; elytris postice gra- 

 datim angustioribus, seriatim lateribus sulcato-punctatis, punctis 

 ina3qualibus, plurimis singulatim seta curvata instructis, inter- 

 stitiis tertio quintoque tuberculato-elevatis, interstitio interiore 

 tuberculo postico majore triangulari, tuberculo apicali elongato, 

 subcylindrico, apieibus obtuse mucronatis ; corpore infra pedibus- 

 que sparse silaceo -pilosis. Long. 8 lin. 



Hah. Victoria. 



Mr. French, of Melbourne, to whom I am indebted for this 

 species, says it is found on young saplings of Eucalyptus vimi- 

 nalts. Possibly it may be sometimes more scaly than in the 

 example before me ; but from the other two species it may be 

 known, inter alia, by the narrow crest-shaped protuberance on 

 the middle of the rostrum and the different form of the apex of 

 the prothorax. A renewed examination of the mouth shows 

 that the maxillee are not covered by the mentum : I have 

 therefore removed the genus from the neighbourhood oiLe/ptops 

 to the Aterpinse. 



Pacliyura vestita. 



P. suboblonga, nigra, supra pube suberecta silacea albido griseoque 

 varia, subtus pedibusque albido-pubescentibus ; rostra valido, 

 prothorace breviore, apicem versus latiore ; antennis subtestaceis, 

 pubescentibus, articulo tertio quam primo duplo longiore ; pro- 

 thorace tenuiter granulato-punctato, in medio albo lineato ; scu- 

 tello subscutiformi, albido -pubescente ; elytris valde convexis, 

 lateribus subparallelis, apice divaricatis, pone basin utrinque callo 



