420 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Australian Curculionide. 
seriate-punctate, the third interstice towards the apex raised 
and bituberculate, the fifth interstice also raised and with 
three tubercles or callosities; legs with appressed whitish 
sete. 
With a narrower prothorax this species has a longer and 
more slender rostrum than any of its congeners. 
Ethemaia curtula. 
E. ovata, griseo-squamosa, setifera; capite inter oculos depresso ; 
rostro crasso, basi bilobo; prothorace latiore; elytris striato- 
punctatis. Long. 3 lin. 
Hab. West Australia. 
Ovate, closely covered with pale greyish scales; head de- 
pressed between the eyes; rostrum stout, the base with two 
raised lobes; antenne ferruginous ; prothorax not longer than 
broad, roughly and unequally punctured ; scutellum slightly 
oblong 5 elytra short, somewhat quadrangular, striate-punctate, 
third and fifth interstices raised and tubereulate posteriorly as in 
the last, punctures large, subapproximate ; body beneath and 
legs scaly, the latter with numerous setz. 
“The short elytra and uniform colour differentiate this species 
from L. sellata, which has also a bilobed rostrum. 
; HYPHARIA. 
Characteres wt in Ethemaia, sed tarsi articulo tertio integro. 
This genus has all the characters, including the facies, of 
Ethemaca, with the exception of the third tarsal jomt, which 
is entire, not bilobed. The general absence of correlation of 
arts in the Coleoptera, especially in the Curculionidae, neces- 
sarily leads to the multiplication of genera, of which there are 
about 9000 for ten times that number of species. 
LHypheria assimilis. 
H, oblonga, fusca, griseo-squamosa; elytris tuberculis, squamis 
suberectis nigris coronatis, instructis. Long. 23—3 lin. 
Hab. Gayndah. 
Oblong, brown, closely covered with greyish scales ; rostrum 
continuous with the head, broadly concave anteriorly ; head 
concave in front, the side slightly projecting over the eye, 
which has also a similar projection beneath ; club of the an- 
tenne shortly ovate; prothorax rather longer than broad, 
coarsely punctured, broadly concave in the middle ; scutellum 
oblong ; elytra parallel at the sides, abruptly declivous be- 
hind, unequally punctured, with two rows of tubercles, four 
on each row, tubercles crowned with black semierect scales ; 
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