the Australia7i Curculionidge. , 139 



Rhinotia venusta. 



R. lineari-elongata, atra, supcrciliis, prothorace, vittis duabus me- 

 dianis exceptis, elytrisque aurantiaco -pilosis ; rostro prothorace 

 longiore ; antennis in medio rostri insertis, articulo ultimo oblongo- 

 (vix triangulari-)acumiuato ; prothorace dense aurantiaco-piloso, in 

 medio lineis duabus elevatis granulatis munito, inter eas longitu- 

 dinaliter modice depresso ; scutello transverse, elevate, nigro ; 

 elytris prothorace baud latioribus, apicibus rotundatis, subseriatim 

 conferte punctatis, sutura postice aliqiiando nigricante ; corpora 

 infra nitide nigro, sternis albo-pilosis ; abdomine segmentis qua- 

 tuor ultimis utrinque macula albo-pilosa ornatis. Long, 6 lin. 



Hah. Queensland (Rockhampton). 



Balaninus Mastersii. 



B. (2) ellipticus, niger, sat dense albo-squamosus, plagis denudatis 

 interruptis exceptis ; rostro testaceo-piceo, tenuissimo, corpore 

 manifeste longiore, apicem versus arcuato ; antennis quinta parte 

 basin versus rostri insertis, funiculo articulis duobus basalibus, 

 primo longissimo, conjunctim scapo longioribus, tertio quarto bre- 

 viore, reliquis tertio ajqualibus, obconicis, clava ovali, quam articnlo 

 praecedente paulo longiore ; prothorace transverso, utrinque pone 

 apicem paulo ampliato-rotundato, disco nigro denudato, linea me- 

 diana lateribusque exceptis; scutello subquadrato; elvtris oblongo- 

 trigonatis, striato-punctatis, singulis plaga ante medium, alteraque 

 versus apicem plus minusve denudatis ; corpore infra pedibusque 

 dense albo-squamosis ; femoribus posticis corpus superantibus, 

 longe pedunculatis. Long. 2^ lin. 



Hab. Queensland (Port Denison). 



What I take to be the male has a much shorter rostnim, 

 the antennae inserted beyond its middle, the scape nearly as 

 long as the funicle, the third joint of the latter very short 

 comparatively, shorter legs, &c. This and B. amcenus, Fab., 

 are the only two species I have seen of this cosmopolitan 

 genus from Australia. Mr. Wallace obtained more than 

 twenty new species in the Malayan archipelago. 



OCHEOPHCEBE. 



nostrum tenuatum, basin versus gradatim crassius, arcuatum ; 

 scrobes antemedianse, ad marginem inferum oculi currentes. An- 

 tennce graciles ; scapo brevi, oculum attingente ; funiculo articulis 

 ultimis breviter obconicis ; clava ovata, distincta. Oculi mediocres, 

 rotundati, tenuiter granulati, ad basin rostri approximate Pro- 

 thorax subconicus, basi rotundatus, lobis ocularibus nullis. Elytra 

 ovata, prothorace paulo latiora. Pygidium obtectum. Pedes me- 

 diocres ; femora fortiter incrassata, mutica : tibice intus flexuosse, 

 apice mucronatse ; tarsi breviusculi ; unyuiculi simplices. Coxce 



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