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parts of Victoria, and is (as its author says hemopterus is) some- 
what more convex than most Psewdolyci are. Its colour is very 
variable as regards the prothorax and elytra, the former being 
usually black “but in some examples with red markings, and the 
latter red with black markings which vary from a single sub- 
sutural line throughintermediate formsto a form in which only the 
apex and the hind part of the lateral margin are red. The rest 
of the insect is black except the eighth and ninth antennal joints, 
which are partly testaceous. In the male the antennal structure 
is like that of the male of the preceding species ‘eleyantulus). 
In the female joints 3—7 (especially 3—5) are more strongly 
dilated, but evidently less strongly (6 and 7 very much less 
strongly) than in hemorrhoidalis and its allies. The prothorax 
is subopaque, strongly cordiform, distinctly longer than wide, 
closely finely and subasperately punctulate, finely and quite 
sharply carinate the length of the middle line (the carina, how- 
ever, not quite reaching the base), and has a large strong fovea 
on either side of the middle line a little behind the apical 
margin. 
P. puberulus, sp. nov. Fem. Elongatus, sat angustus ; sat dense 
pubescens; colore probabiliter variabilis, exemplo typico 
nigro rufo-notato [sc. prothoracis macula magna hirsuta 
basali utrinque posita, elytrorum vitta brevi angusta 
subsuturali, et antennarum articulis 8° 9° que (lujus apice 
excepto), rufis vel testaceis}; capite minus brevi, 
sat nitido, crebrius subtiiius (nullo modo aspere) punctu- 
lato; antennarum articulis 3°—5° modice (6° 7” 
que leviter) dilatatis ; prothorace quam latiori parum 
longiori, cordiformi, fere «quali, longitudinaliter in medio 
minus -perspicue elevato; elytris confertim subtiliter sub- 
aspere punctulatis, lineis 4 discoidalibus leviter elevatis 
instructis. Long., 43 1.; lat., 1,3, 1. 
Mas. latet. 
A very distinct species ; more closely pubescent than its allies ; 
and at once distinguishable from the other Psewdolyci known to 
me by the large patch of fulvous pubescence at the base of the 
prothorax on either side of the median line, as well as by the 
almost even surface of that segment. The structure of the 
antenne of the female is much like that of the female of 
hemopterus. 
N.S. Wales ; Blue Mountains. 
CURCULIONID. 
ECRIZOTHIS (gen nov. Leptopsidarum). 
Rostrum robustum breve, ad apicem dilatatum et ut Leptops 
lamina glabra subtriangulari instructum, supra 3-carinatum; 
