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DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID&, 
WITH NOTES ON PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED 
SPECIES, 
By ArtHur M. Lea. 
[Read September 5, 1899.] 
iP Aang E: 
The Australian CURCULIONID are comparatively little known. 
Including the Scotytip#, BRrENTHIDZ, and ANTHRIBID, 
scarcely 1,900 species have been recorded ; and I helieve that 
fully 4,000 species of the allied families occur in Australia and 
Tasmania.* The BRENTHID, as might be expected, are better 
known than the other families, but even now contains a number 
of undescribed forms. The Scotyripm, despite their great 
economic importance, are little known, scarcely one dozen species 
having been described; and the ANTHRIBID& are in an almost 
similar state. Of the true CurcuULIONIDE, the subfamilies 
Hyperides, Magdalinides, Tychiides, Cionides, Laridiides, and 
several others are almost untouched. Some of the larger sub- 
families are in great confusion. No attempt has ever been made 
to systematically arrange the genera; in consequence, many of 
them remain in the positions to which they were originally 
consigned, and which are often erroneous. It seems to me, for 
instance, that to strictly attach subfamily importance to the 
presence or absence of ocular lobes, and as to whether the scrobes 
are directed straight towards or slightly below the eyes, are 
mistakes. In this and succeeding papers, however, I do not 
propose to attempt a classification of the family, but simply to 
describe such new forms as I can find time to work up, and to 
give new or exact localities for previously described species, 
together with remarks on variation, synonymy, dc. 
The present paper is confined to members of the Zrirhinides 
(a subfamily, of which large numbers of genera and species have 
already been described by the Rev. Thomas Blackburn, in the 
Transactions of this Society for 1893 and 1894). Altogether 83 
species are described, and are referred to the following genera :— 
Desiantha (6), Anorthorhinus (3), Cydmea ( 17), @nochroma (1), 
Misophrice (9), Storeus (34), Cyttalia (8), Glawcopela (2), and 
Myositta (3). 
* Only 95 species have been expressly stated to occur in Tasmania. 
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