Curculionidae from various parts of Australia. li)9 



-wider than punctures, and apparently with numerous small granules or 

 punctures. Femora strongly unidentate; front tibise strongly bisinnate; 

 tarsi with claw Joint very indistinct. Length 3— 3 S A min. 



Hab.: Australia (Hamburg Museum and Entomological Society of 

 Berlin); S. Australia, Port Lincoln, Adelaide (Belgian Museum). 



Readily distinguished from all other species of Aolles by the median 

 fascia of the elytra, of which traces usually remain even on greatly 

 abraded specimens. 



Haplonyx Spencei, GYLL. Hab.: Queensland, Rockhampton; 

 N. S. Wales, Sydney. 



Haplonyx vestigialis, Pasc. Hab.: N.S.Wales, Sydney. 



Haplonyx Kirbyi, FHS. Hab.: N. S. Wales, Sydney. 



Haplonyx nigrirostris, Chev. Hab.: Australia. 



Haplonyx Schonherri, BOH. Hab.: Australia. 



Zeopus storeoides, Pasc. Hab.: Australia. 



Sigastus fasciciilaris, PASC. Hab.: Australia. 



Sigastus Casuarinae, n. sp. 



Reddish-brown, muzzle, club and tibial hooks darker. Densely 

 clothed with scales, varying from white, through ochreous and golden 

 brown, to black; and forming numerous fascicles. 



Rostrum slightly shorter than prothorax, feebly curved, rather 

 wide; with dense punctures in irregulär series behind insertion of antennge, 

 and causing an appearance as of numerous feeble costse, apical third 

 with smaller and not seriate punctures. Prothorax with dense and 

 rather small punctures, feebly tuberculate beneath fascicles. Elytra not 

 much longer than wide; striate-punctate, punctures in strise apparently 

 rather feeble; interstices densely punctate and feebly tuberculate beneath 

 fascicles. Femora strongly dentate; front tibiae of male more strongly 

 bisinuate than in female, basal sinus smaller than the other; claws cleft 

 at apex. Length 472 — 5 mm. 



Hab.: Queensland, Rockhampton (Hamburg Museum); N. S. 

 Wales, Sydney (Belgian Museum), National Park, Blue Mountains 

 (H. J. CARTER); Tasmania, Nubeena (A. M. Lea). 



The scales (apart from those forming the fascicles) are mostly 

 ochreous or golden brown. The white, ones (these, however, appear to 

 be easily discoloured) are often in the form of small spots; or, on the 

 prothorax, short oblique stripes. On an occasional specimen however, 

 most of the ordinary scales are white; whilst they may be almost absent. 

 The "black scales are almost eutirely confined to the fascicles. The 

 fascicles (both on the prothorax and elytra) are usually black or brown 

 in the middle, then ochreous or golden brown, and sometimes bordered 

 with white, but occasionally they are entirely of a golden brown. On 



