some Auitrali'itu C'urculionuliT?. 4G9 



lifter the luiiUlIf), one on the tliinl urar base (this one 

 partly on the sucund and I'onrih as will), <ine on the fonrlh 

 at niiUilr, and one on the fifth near the one on third. 

 There are ten specimens l)efore nie, apparently withont 

 di>tinet sexual iliiYerenees. Some have the hasal segment of 

 abdomen lightly convex, but, as their autennic and rostrum 

 are as on the others, 1 pnsume this to be an individual 

 rather than a sexual variation. 



Pezichus gracilis. Lea. 



Mr. I'ryant took two specimens of this species at Kuranda. 

 They are females, and ditiVn* from the type, which is certainly 

 a male *, in being somewhat larger, rostrum slightly longer 

 and thinner, with the coarse punctures not quite extending 

 to middle ; antennae inserted about one-third from apex of 

 rostrum, and scarcely passing apex for one-fourth of its 

 lenirth, and legs a trille shorter. On the third interstice of 

 both sexes there is an elongated median fascicle of dark 

 scales, terminated by pale ones. 



Pezichus binotatiis, Waterh. Kuranda. 

 Glochinorrhinus evanidiis, Lea. Kuranda. 

 Blepiarda undulata, Pasc. Tweed River. 

 Dysopirhinus grandis, Lea. Kuranda. 



]MicRAONYCHus, gen. nov. 



Head moderately large, scarcely visible from above. Eyes 

 rather small, routid, frontal, distant, railicr coarsely facetted. 

 Rostrum long, thin, and curved. Antennie thin, inserted 

 about middle of rostrum ; scape shorter than funiele ; club 

 ovate. Piothnrax moileratcly long, sides in front rather 

 strongly drawn backwards, l)ut oeuhir h)bes distinct. Scu- 

 tellum minute. Khitra more or less parallol-sided, very little 

 wider than prothorax. Pectoral canal deep and distinct, 

 continued almost to middle of nutasternum ; apex open. 

 Metasternum rather long, e[)isterna narrow. Abdomen 

 rather long, first, second, and fifth segments large, the others 

 short. Legs rather short ; femora edentate ; tarsi short, 

 third joint wide, feebly l)ilobed or rounded, claw-joint 

 absent. Elongate, s(iuainose, tion-tnberculate, wing* tl. 



The pe(tor;d canal completely separates the two front pairs 



♦ It wa* c"ti-i<lered orij^'inally thnt the type was probably a female. 



