the Australian CurculionidEe. 99 



Drassicus illotus. 



D. prsecedenti similis, sed squamositate Crustacea sculpturam occul- 

 tante supra tectus ; articulo secundo funiculi quaui primo evi- 

 denter longiore ; prothoraee apice mag-is producto, pono medium 

 lateribus parallelis ; corpore infra pedibusque sat dense griseo- 

 squamosis ; femoribus anticis dente acuto armatis. Long. 4 lin. 



Hah. Queensland. 



When the squamosity is removed, the punctation on the 

 prothorax is seen to be nearly obsolete ; on the elytra it con- 

 sists of large, rather closely set foveee. 



Agenopus. 



Poroptero affinis, sed tarsis linearibus, infra nudis, sparse sctosulo- 

 marginatis, articulo tertio haud bilobo. 



The only other genus among the allies of Foropterus with 

 linear tarsi is Mormosiyites ; but in that genus they are hispid 

 or spongy beneath, as in Poropterus^ and the femora are linear, 

 and the eyes finely facetted. The species described below is 

 exceedingly like Poropterus musculus ; but, besides the generic 

 differences, the base of the prothorax and the proportional 

 sizes of the three intermediate abdominal segments will, inter 

 alia, at once distinguish it. 



Agenopus agricola. 



A. ovatus, supra depressus, niger, indumento fusco, squamulis ercctis 

 setulisque raris nigris interjectis, indutus ; rostro valido, sat bre- 

 viusculo, rude squamoso ; antennis subpiceis, funiculo articulis 

 duobus basalibus longitudine sequalibus (primo crassiore), reliquis 

 subturbinatis ; prothoraee latitudine paulo longiore, apice paulo 

 producto, antice constricto, deinde rotundato, lateribus gradatim 

 parum angustiore, basi fortiter bisinuato, lobis ocularibus distiuctis, 

 supra insequali, fere obsolete foveato ; eljtris supra sat confertim 

 leviter foveatis, basi circa scutellum elevatis, lateribus subparal- 

 lelis, declivitate perparum latioribus, deinde sat abrupte angus- 

 tioribus, apice late rotundatis, humeris paulo prominuhs ; corpore 

 infra pedibusque remote rude punctato-squamigeris ; abdomine 

 segmento secundo duobus sequentibus conjunctim breviore ; tibiis 

 brevibus. Long. 3 lin. 



Hah. Western Australia. 



Nechyrus inconvptus. PI. I. fig. 9. 



N. ovatus, supra depressus, niger, squamis erectis, plerumque fasci- 

 culatis, concoloribus vel fuscis, nonnullis griseis, adspersus ; capite 

 parvo; rostro prothoraee vix breviore, dimidio apicali uitido, 

 lateraliter sulcato, remote tenuiter punctulato ; antennis piceis ; 

 scapo sat breviusculo, gradatim crassiore ; funiculo articulis duo- 



