the Australian Curculionidae. 195 



elytra. The two species of the genus, the second of which is 

 from New Zealand,, are not unlike Orchestes fagi, but con- 

 siderably larger. 



Cyttalia griseipila. 

 C. oblongo-ovalis, fusca, subnitida, omnino subtiliter griseo-pilosa, 

 supra setulis erectis adspersa ; rostro prothoraci lougitudine 

 aequali, cariiiula in medio ante apicem desinente ; antennis sub- 

 testaceis, scapo apice clavaque uigricantibus ; prothoracc latitudine 

 paulo breviore, crebre punctato, utrinque modice rotundato ; scu- 

 tello miuuto, triangulari ; elytris quam protborace ampliatis, et 

 plus quadruplo longioribus, substriato-punctatis, punctis paulo 

 approximatis ; pedibus posticis longioribus; tibiis longiusculis. 

 Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. Sydney. 



Phrenozemia lunata. 

 P. oblonga, fusca, squamositate sordide grisea tecta, squamulis pili- 

 formibus adspersa; rostro nigro, confertim punctato, basi squa- 

 moso ; antennis ferrugineis, funiculi articulo primo valde incrassato, 

 secundo tertioque conjunctim manifesto brevioribus ; protborace 

 cylindrico ; elytris striato-punctatis, interstitiis alternis fortiter 

 elevatis, tertio quintoque singulatim versus apicem tuberculo parvo 

 instructis, pone medium litera V-reversa, nigro-marginata, signatis. 

 Long. If liu. 



Hab. Western Australia (Fremantle). 



Size and outline of P. lyproides {anfb^ vol. x. p. 95), but, 

 inter alia^ at once differentiated by the raised alternate inter- 

 stices of the elytra; the coloration and, indeed, the general 

 appearance can scarcely fail to recall our Gronops lunatus. 

 In the generic formula, owing to some agglutination of the 

 hairs in the specimen I examined, the second and third joints 

 of the funicle were described as one ; in reality, however, P. 

 lyproides has the second joint considerably shorter than the 

 first, as in this species. 



Meriphus coronatus. 



M. griseo-setulosus, vix nitidus ; capita supra nigro ; rostro capita 

 fere duplo longiore, subferrugiiieo, apice nigro ; antennis sub- 

 ferrugineis, funiculo clavaque infuscatis ; protborace basi minus 

 dUatato, crebre rugoso-punctato, silaceo, margine antico nigro ; 

 elytris silaceis, scutello suturaque nigris, rude striato-punctatis, 

 singulis basi emarginatis, humeris caUosis ; corpore infra nigro, 

 squamis niveis rotundatis elongatis intermixtis adsperso ; pedibus 

 ferrugineis, femoribus in medio nigris. Long. 2 lin. 



Hah. West Australia. 



Besides the difference of colour, this species has the prothorax 



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