the Australian Curcullonidge. 85 



nigoso-impresso, apice emarginatura triangiilari parva, margini- 

 bus elevata ; scapo flexuoso, apicem versus valde incrassato ; pro- 

 thorace sat fortitcr rotundato, apice valde prominulo, in medio 

 sulcato, granulis mamillatis nitidis majusculis, nonnullis confertis, 

 munito ; elytris prothorace vix latioribus, postice gradatim am- 

 plioribus, augulo humerali recto, transversim grosse undulato- 

 granulatis, grauulis unisetigeris, singulo eljtro postice tuberculo 

 oblongo obtuse obsito ; corpore infra sparse punctato-setoso ; 

 pcdibus setis numerosis adspersis. Long. 5 lin. 

 Hob. New South Wales (Monaro), 



Allied to M. basalis, but smaller, with a different rostrum 

 and the elytra more regularly and less strongly sculptured. 



Mythites degener. 

 M. sat anguste ovatus, niger, capite inter oculos carina depressa 

 notato, supra oculos cristato ; rostro tenuiore, basi profunde 

 transversim sulcato, antice fortiter sulcato, sulco angustiore, versus 

 apicem minus ampliato ; prothorace latitudine vix longiore, modice 

 rotundato, irregulariter rude granulate, in medio profunde sul- 

 cato ; elytris basi prothorace hand latioribus, lateribus S sub- 

 parallelis, 5 subovatis, apicibus parum emarginatis, subseriatim 

 foveolatis, interstitiis alternis antice paulo, postice magis elevatis 

 et in tubercula plus minusve nodiformia dissolutis, humeris 

 antrersum fortiter productis ; abdemine maris in medio longi- 

 tudinaliter pilose ; pedibus setulis albidis adpressis adspersis. 

 Long. 4|-5 lin. 



Hah. South Australia (Port Lincoln). 

 Much less strongly sculptured than M. suIcicoUis, with 

 only a single depressed carina in front. 



^DEIODES. 



Caput antice cenvexum, circa oculos elevatum ; rostrum breve, ca- 

 pite angustius, antice bilebum, inter lobes sulcatum, emarginatura 

 triangulari terminatum ; scrobes breves, arcuatse. Antennce bre- 

 viusculae, clava distincta. Ocnii parvi, subevati, a prothorace di- 

 stantes. Prothorcuv rotundatus, convexus, apice productus, basi 

 truncatus, lobis ecularibus distinctis, plus minusve prominuhs. 

 Elytra oblonga vel evata, humeris antrersum productis, postice 

 dechvia. Pedes subvalidi ; tihice rectse ; tarsi modice elongati. 



The small roundish eyes away from the prothorax, notwith- 

 standing its ocular lobes, offer a good diagnosis of this genus. 

 Besides the species described below, which are all very di- 

 stinct, though the sculpture seems liable to some variation, 

 Euomus nodipennis, Boh., is also to be referred to it. PJiali- 

 dura Scorpio^ Bois., seems to me to be the species on which 

 Schonherr founded his genus Euomus^ naming it, but without 

 any description, E. Fahrcei. 



