the Australian Curculionid^. 231 



Lejitops argillaceus. 



L. subovatus, niger, omnino dense albido-squamosus, squamis aliis 

 elongatis setulisque adspersus ; rostro prothorace vix breviore, 

 modice robusto, medio cariiiato, lateraliter sulcato ; scrobibus ante 

 partem inferiorem oculi evanescentibus ; scapo modice tenuato, a 

 basi ad apicem gradatim sed sat cite crassiore ; funiculo articulis 

 ultimis subturbinatis ; clava nigra, auguste ovata ; prothorace 

 subtransverso, rude irregulariter impresso ; elytris lateribus parum 

 rotuudatis, humeris oljliquis et fortiter tuberculatis, apice anguste 

 rotundatis, striato-punctatis, punctis sublinearibus, interstitiis 

 couvexis, iutegris, dorso postice tuberculis quatuor subvalidis, 

 acutis, transversim positis, instructis ; femoribus in medio modice 

 incrassatis. Long. 5-7 ( $ ) lin. 



Hah. Queensland. 



This species belongs to the section represented hjL. quadri- 

 tuherculatus and allied forms. Its diagnostic characters will 

 be found in the form of the scape, combined with those of the 

 rostrum, scrobes, and the absence of tubercles on the elytra, 

 except at the shoulders and the four at the posterior part. In 

 the freshest of my specimens the scales have a very decidedly 

 pearly lustre. Gurculio clavus, Fab. (unknown to Schonherr, 

 but referred to by him as probably congeneric with Hijypo- 

 rkmuSy and so placed in the Munich Catalogue), is a LeptopSj 

 and belongs to this section. L. Hopei, Fahr., seems to me to 

 be identical with L. squalidus ; indeed Fahrseus himself queries 

 "An femina Leptopis squalidi^ " 



Leptops musimon. 



L. ovatus, fuscus, opacus, sat dense umbrino-squamosiia ; rostro 

 crasso, antice profunde flexuoso-sulcato, supra oculum tubercido 

 " valido munito ; scrobibus brevibus, subtransversis ; antennis 

 robustis ; clava brevi, funiculo baud crassiore ; prothorace trans- 

 verso, basi quam apice paulo latiore, supra vermicidato-sulcato ; 

 scutello transverso, apice late rotundato ; elytris ovalibus, singulis 

 quadriseriatim tuberculatis, serie suturali tuberculis minoribus 

 antice obsoletis, serie externa tuberculis tribus, seriebus intcr- 

 mediis sequalibus, singidatim sextuberculatis, interstitiis impresso- 

 punctatis, baud granidatis ; corpore infra pedibusque dense squa- 

 mulosis, parce grisco-setulosis. •. Long, 7 lin. 



Hah. Rockhampton. 



In L. polyacantJms and L. ebemnus there are also interocular 

 tubercles. The latter is a glossy black species with granules 

 on tlic elytra as well as tubercles j the former has the rostrum 

 longitudinally grooved, the interspaces forming five carina?, 

 and the scrobc is longer and not transverse. 



