100 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Australian Curculiomda3. 



bus basalibus sequalibus, reliquis subturbinatis ; clava breviter 

 ovata ; prothorace utrinque usque ad medium gradatim latiore, 

 deinde lateribus parallelis, apice producto, supra basin versus 

 late leviter excavato ; scuteilo semiorbiculari ; elytris oblongo- 

 cordatis, rude remote punctatis, humeris modice prominulis, apice 

 rotundatis, singulis tuberculis fasciculatis sex biseriatim obsitis ; 

 corpore infra remote punctato, punctis in fundo squamam griseam 

 gerentibus ; pedibus squamis elongatis asperrime vestitis ; tibiis 

 minus elongatis, rude squamosis. Long. 4-5 lin. 



Ilab. Queensland. 



Near the Ceram N. porcatus^ which has also shorter tibije, 

 but, inter alia, with scattered foveate punctures on the elytra, 

 instead of their being sulcate-punctured. This species has a 

 resemblance to some species of Poropterus, from which genus, 

 however, Nechyrus is known by the pectoral canal open at the 

 apex and extending to the posterior part of the intermediate 

 coxa? ; from Cnemargus, to which I think it is most nearly 

 allied among the genera known to Lacordaire, it is at once 

 diiferentiated by its straight tibiffi. 



Idotasia cequalis. 



I. elliptica, nigra, nitida ; rostro arcuate, basi fronteque lineis lon- 

 gitudinalibus acute elevatis ; antennis piceis ; oculis tenui-granu- 

 latis ; prothorace sat fortiter vagc punctulato, punctis squama 

 nivca instructis ; elytris subtilissimc striato-punctulatis ; femoribus 

 parum incrassatis, muticis, vage lineatim albo-squamulosis ; tibiis 

 sulcatis, rectis, posticis intus subflexuosis. Long. 1| lin. 



Hah. Cape York ; Rockhampton. 



Near the Moluccan /. elliptica^ but the prothorax less 

 strongly and closely punctured, and the femora lineated but 

 not toothed. 



Idotasia evanida. 



I. elliptica, nigra, nitida; rostro arcuato, basi fronteque lineis lon- 

 gitudinalibus elevatis ; antennis piceis ; oculis tenui-granulatis ; 

 prothorace sat tenuiter vago punctulato, punctis squamula minu- 

 tissima instructis ; elytris subtilissimc striatis, vix puuctulatis ; 

 femoribus hand incrassatis, sulcato-lincatis, muticis ; tibiis sulca- 

 tis, rectis. Long. 1^ Hn. 



Hah. Queensland (Wide Bay). 



Prothorax and elytra less strongly punctured than in the 

 preceding, the latter with the least possible vestiges of punc- 

 tuation, and the femora nearly linear ; the posterior femora in 

 this and its congeners, as well as in allied genera, have the 

 up[)er margin densely covered with snowy-white scales. A 

 ligurc uf Idotasia nasuta is given in this Magazine, ser. 4. 



