Mr. Pascoe's descriptions of Ciirculionidai. 5'J9 



Idastes elevatus. 



I. compressus, fu.scus, sqiiamulis pallidiorilnis a(].s|iersis ; pro- 

 tliorace basi quam longitudiue duplo latiore. Loug. 5 liu. 

 Hab. New Hebrides. 



-the elytra especially — dark brown, with paler 

 scattered scales, much smaller and less numerous (perhaps 

 partially abraded) on the elytra; head convex in front; eyes 

 rather widely apart; rostrum black, with scales only at the base; 

 antennae glossy ferruginous, the first and third joints of the 

 funicle of equal length, the second nearly twice as long, club 

 somewhat short, of four distinct joints ; prothorax rounded 

 above, gradually broader towards the base, which is about twice 

 broader than long; scutellum rounded, velvety; elytra much 

 broader than the prothorax at the base, gradually narrowing 

 to the rounded apex, much compressed and raised into a sort of 

 crest at the middle portion of the suture ; three intermediate 

 segments of the abdomen nearly equal in length ; anterior tibia3 

 more flexuous than the others ; penultimate joint of the tarsi 

 strongly bilobed; claws simple. 



Poropterus pjithon. 



H. ellipticus, subdepressus, niger, opacus, parce pallide fusco- 

 squamosus ; prothorace apice producto, bilobo; elytris remote 

 foveato-impressis, apice rotundatis. Long. 5|-6 lin. 



Hal). Port Bowen. 



Elliptic, siibdepressed, black, opacjue, partially clothed with 

 j)ale brownish scales, which are more scattered on the middle 

 of the prothorax and elytra; rostrum rather broad, remotely 

 ])unctured ; antenna3 ferruginous, the club with a blackish 

 pubescence — pale in certain lights — second joint of the funicle 

 much longer than the first ; prothorax about equal in length and 

 breadth, impunctate, the sides anteriorly a little incurved, the 

 apex projecting and bilobed ; elytra half as long again as broad, 

 the shoulders with a projecting lobe directed forwards, the apex 

 rounded, above with a few irregular foveate impressions; femora 

 scarcely thickened ; tibiae at the apex black and without scales. 



In outline this species resembles P. /•ubeira, Boh., a smaller 

 and shorter species, and, intei- alia, the shoulders not tuber- 

 culiferous. 



