604 KKVISION OF THK AUSTliALIAN CURCULIONID.E, xl., 



scutellum and wings. Although the genus is a very distinct 

 one, several of the species are very closely allied, differing but 

 little in anything but size and clothing. In the appended tabula- 

 lation, I have been compelled, consequently, to make use of some 

 very trivial characters. 



Alate alata, ii.sp. 



Apterous. 



Glabrous montivaga Q\\. 



Squaniose. 



Not less than 4 mm. in length femortilis V.v'ni\\a. 



Less than 4 mm. in length. 



Scales sooty and almost uniform in colour trinarea I'asc. 



Elytra with a distinct patch of whitish scales at 



basal third cognata, n.sp. 



Ampagia femoralis Erichs., Mast. Cat., Sp. No. 5544. 

 Cryptorhynchus femoralis Erichs. 



Black, shining; antennae and tarsi dull red. Rather densely 

 clothed with coarse scales varying in colour from ochreous- white 

 to sooty-brown or black; a moderately large sooty patch about 

 the summit of posterior declivity, head and base of rostrum 

 densely squamose. Under surface and legs densely clothed with 

 large, soft and somewhat ochreous scales, the metasternuni and 

 basal segment of abdomen with long sette. 



Head with the ocular fovea and rostrum at the base entirely 

 concealed by clothing. Rostrum dilated towards base and apex, 

 very feebly carinate along middle; rather strongl}^, but not very 

 densely punctate. Scape the lengtli of four basal joints of funicle; 

 club briefly ovate, scarcely longer than the three preceding joints. 

 Prothorax densely and strongly punctate, punctures round, deep, 

 and very close together, but not at all confluent. Elytra very 

 feebly rising along suture to slightly beyond middle, and then de- 

 scending at an angle of about 60°; each with ten deep, narrow, 

 and very distinct striae, containing moderately distinct but distant 

 punctures, elsewhere impunctate. Under surface and legs with 

 similar punctures to those on prothorax. Mesosternal receptacle 

 not keeled posteriorly. Abdomen with basal segment less than 

 half total length, apex rounded and slightly produced on to 

 second, its middle feebly concave, and less strongly punctate than 



