some Atislruliiin CurculioniJu'. 115 



Dcii-^cly elotlu'd with whitish, oclircous, and sooty scales, 

 \Yith nuincroiis erect, dark, and rather short seta?, scattered 

 aliout on head, prothorax, and elytra. 



Head with dense punctnrcs, concealed in front. Rostrum 

 about the len;;tli of prothorax, lightly curved; basal half 

 M-ith live cariiiie separated by rows of [junctures, apical half 

 with njodciatily dense but not seriate punctures. Antennae 

 inserted slightly nearer apex than base of rostrum, first 

 joint of funielc stout and moderately long. Pruthorax 

 almost as long as wide, sides rather strongly and evenly 

 rounded, base decidedly wider than apex ; with dense, round, 

 concealed punctures. Elytra oblong-cordate, much wider 

 than prothor.ix, with rows of large, partially concealed 

 punctures ; interstices wide, with small, dense, normally 

 quite concealed punctures. Leys rather hjug ; femora 

 stout. 



Length 2^-3 mm. 



I lab. New South Wales (iT/flc/eoy Museum), National Park 

 (G. E. Bryant), 'rasmuuia : lluon River, Mount Wellington 

 {A. M. Lea). 



In general appearance not at all close to the two pre- 

 viously named species (tofjata and altematis) known to me. 

 In its elytral setae it approaches the description of setosa, 

 but the two species appear to have little else in common. 

 The male difi'ers from the female in having the rostrum 

 slightly stouter, legs slightly longer, and basal segment of 

 abdomen widely depressed, instead of strongly convex, in 

 middle. 



On the prothorax there are three lines of whitish scales, 

 the surface elsewhere being clothed with more or less 

 oehreous ones. On the elytra the white scales clothe the 

 suture (more noticeably towards the base than elsewhere) 

 and are fairly dense about the middle, but with a linear 

 arrangement ; the sooty scales form an elongated s|)ot on 

 the second interstice near base, another beyond the middle, 

 and a third near apex, on the fourth there is an elongated 

 median spot, and on the sixth a small spot just before the 

 middle, but on some specimens there are no dark spots, or 

 only two or four on each elytron. On the rest of the elytra 

 the scales are oehreous, sometimes with a golden, sometimes 

 with a reddish, gloss. On the under surface the scales are 

 usually whitish, sometimes with a greenish gloss. On au 

 occasional specimen the erect sctie are nearly white. 



On some of the Tasmanian specimens the dark nwrkings 

 on the elytra are ratiicr more conspicuous than usual, there 

 being elongated median spots on all the even interstices, and 



