the Australian Curculionidas. 389 



Auletes calceatus. 



A. subnitidus, lutescens, obsolete pubescens ; capite rostro (apice 

 excepto) articulisque duobus ultimis tarsorum nigris ; capite 

 minus transverse, sat rude punctate ; rostro capite duplo longiore, 

 sparse punctidato ; antennis versus basin rostri insertis ; clava 

 nigra ; prothorace subtransverso, rugoso-punctato, basi apiceque 

 aequali ; scutello fusco ; elytris subovatis, prothorace midto lati- 

 oribus, subseriatim fortiter punctulatis, humeris prominulis, sutura 

 fusca ; corpore infra nigro. Long. 1^ lin. 



Hah. Champion Baj. 



A comparatively robust, coarsely punctured species. 



Auletes turhidus. 



A. nitide fulvus, subtiliter pubescens ; capite transverso, infuscato ; 

 oculis ampliatis, prominulis ; rostro capite protboraceque con- 

 junctim breviore, impunctato, apicem versus ampliato ; antennis 

 basin versus rostri insertis, articido prime clavaque infuscatis ; pro- 

 thorace transverso, utrinque fortiter rotundato, et basin versus 

 tumidulo, parce mediocriter punctulate ; scutello parvo ; eljrtris 

 parum elengatis, tenuiter parce punctulatis, stria suturali 

 distincta, sutura fusca ; coi-pore infra articulisque duobus ultimis 

 tarsorum fuscis. Long. 1 lin. 



Hah. South Australia (Gawler). 



Allied to the preceding, but less robust and with finely 

 punctured elytra. 



Auletes nigritarsis, 



A. nigro-piceus ; capite valde transverso ; oculis ampliatis, pro- 

 minulis ; rostro a basi ad apicem gradatim incrassato, parum 

 arcuate, capiti prothoracique conjunctim longitudine aequali ; 

 antennis prope basin rostri insertis, flavidis, articulo prime clava- 

 que fuscis ; prothorace subtransverso, parce punctate, pone 

 medium fortiter rotundato ; scutello inconspicuo ; elytris brevi- 

 usculis, tenuiter sat sparse punctidatis, stria suturali distincta ; 

 abdomine metasternoque nigris ; pedibus flavidis, tarsis nigris. 

 Long. I lin. 



Hah. South Australia ; West Australia. 



Like the European A. tuhicen^ but head, rostrum, eyes, &c. 

 different. 



