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PlIAUN.T.US. 



This ^fiuis Nvas {louhtfiiUy referred to tlie Zygopides. A 

 rc-cxamimition of the cliaraeters of the ty|)cs, together witli 

 those of a second species taken Ijy Mr. Jiryant and a third 

 from the Macde.iy Museum, convinces me that tlie genus 

 shouKl pr()l):il)ly l)i' referred to the lOrirhinides. The serobes 

 were originally dcscril)ed as *' hitcral/' but tliey arc rather 

 pccubar, l)i'ing ol)li(jucly and rapidly turned under the 

 rostrum. On each side above the scrobe and having a 

 common starting-point with it, tlicre is a distinct groove, 

 continuous to tlie eye, that at Hrst appears to be tlie real 

 scrobe (much as in Rliacliioilcs and I'lucosmia curnuta, but 

 not in the other species of the latter genus), and is alike 

 in all three species. 



Kcgarding the genus as belonging to the Erirhinides, in 

 Mr. Jilackburn's table of the genera of that subfamily, the 

 falcate front tibiae would associate it with Gtnoc/iromn and 

 Olhiodorus, from both of which it is readily distinguished 

 by the short claw-joint. It is really, however, not very close 

 to either of those genera, nor to any other of the subfamily 

 known to me. 



Phaunieus trilinealbus, sp. n. 



Black, shining. White scales forming three narrow lines 

 on prothorax (the lateral ones not quite to base, the median 

 one not quite to apex), narrowing, clothing the suture at 

 base and apex, dense on parts of sterna, forming a hue on 

 the under surface of each of tiic four front femora, and 

 on the upper surface of the liind four, and fairly dense on 

 tarsi and tips of the tibiaj. Numerous black setie on legs 

 and on parts of the upper surlacc. 



Ih'fid with fairly dense small punctures. Rostrum thin, 

 slightly longer than prothorax ; with dense punctures, be- 

 liind tlie antennic seriate in arrangement, and on the sides 

 separated by acute ridges. Antennaj inserted about one- 

 fourth from apex of rostrum, two bas;d joints of funicle 

 moderately long, Hrst longer and stouter than second. 

 Prothorax strongly convex, slightly longer than wide, sides 

 evenly rounded ; with dense, clearly defined punctures of 

 moderate size. Elytra subcurdate, strongly convex, about 

 once and one-half the width of prothorax, with rows of deep 

 punctures in narrow stria*. Leys long; front tibiaj strongly 

 curved. 



Length 21-.3 mm. 



Hah. y^i^w South Wales : Illawarra. 



