some Australian Curculioni(]nt». 305 



■whitish erect or subcrect seta? scattered about, and forming 

 a rcfjuhir row on each elytral interstice. 



Hidil with conceaU-d punctures. Eves small and coarsely 

 facetted. Rostrum sli}:!;hlly lonj^cr than its {greatest width, 

 subparalli'l-sidcd to near apex ; punctures concealed e.\cept 

 on the apical triangular plate. Antcunie rather short and 

 stout; club briefly ovate. Prothorax decidedly transverse, 

 sides moderately rounded, punctures normally concealed. 

 Elytra ovate, thrice the length of prothorax, with regular 

 rows of laige partially concealed puiu-turcs, becoming 

 smaller posteriorly. Leys rather short and stout ; tibiie 

 dilated at apex. 



Length 3-3^ mm. 



Hub. West Australia : Perth. 



With scales and setaj much as on xanthorrlicea, but stouter 

 and eyes much smaller. Thu.s, in that species the space 

 between the eyes is but little more than the extreme lengtli 

 of an eye ; in the present species thes«])iice between the eyes 

 is fully double the kngth of an eye. The antennic are also 

 shorter, with the club more rounded. Crinita, also from 

 W. Australia, is a larger species, with thinner antennae and 

 much less conspicuous setic, &c. Subterranea, puncticoHis, 

 and sivanseaeiisis have very similar eyes and antennae, but 

 the setie are in more than one series on each interstice, and 

 the size is usually considerably larger. 



Timareta crinita, Pasc. Cottesloe. 

 T. Jigurata, Pasc. Cottesloe. 

 T. pilosa, Blackb. Adelaide. 

 T. duplicata, Lea. Sydney. 

 T. (/ranicol/is, Lea. Perth. 



Merimnetes CEqiialifrons, Blackb., var. compactus, n. var. 



Four specimens (both sexes), taken by Mr. Bryant on the 

 Blue Mountains, differ from ordinary specimens of (Pquali- 

 frons in being shorter and more compact, and with a triHe 

 shorter rostrum. But as 1 can find no other differences, I 

 have not ventured to give them other than a varietal name. 



Myllocerns bilineater, sp. n. 



(^ . Black or blackish : legs reddish. Densely clothed 

 with white scales, uniform on head, under surface, and legs, 

 but mixed with numerous black sj)ots on elytra : a black 



