440 Mil. r. p. PA.SCOE ON THE CURCULTONIDiE. 



My specimen of this curious species is a little rubbed, but it 

 appears to have been densely covered with rusty-yellow hairs — 

 too cylindrical to be called scales. The unusual shortness of the 

 rostrum ( c? ) is accompanied by a very short scape. 



LiEMOSACCUS SYNOPTicus. L. oblongus, niger, opacus, supra inter- 

 rupte silaceo-squamosus ; rostro nigro, nitido, modice arcuate ; capite 

 maris paulo longiore ; oculis fere contiguis ; antennis fusco-ferrugineis; 

 I'lava nigra ; prothorace confertim putictato, dorso cruciato-subim- 

 presso, cavitatibus squamuUs silaceis repletis, utrinque etiam silaceo- 

 squamulosis; scutello elongato-triangulari ; elytris striato-punctatis, 

 plagis duabus magnis deeoratis, una transversa basali, altera minora 

 pone medium, apicibusque silaceo-squamulosis, ca;teris elytrorum 

 denudatis ; infra sat dense griseo-squamulosus ; pedibus nigris, fere 

 nudis. Long. If lin. 

 Hab. Queensland. 



The confluent eyes, and short, distinctly curved rostrum ( d ?) 

 would seem to take this species out of LcBinosaccus; it is, however, 

 too obviously allied to L. subsignatus, Schon., to allow of its being 

 generically separated. In the female of the latter the rostrum 

 is more than twice as long as in the male, and decidedly curved, 

 IIow far these diflcrences apply to all the species is at present 

 unknown. 



Demim^a. 

 (Leptopsinse.) 



Mostrum validum, arcuatum, hand angulatum, capite angustius et 

 duplo longius, apicem versus latins ; scrobes obliqua?, oculum 

 infra attingentes. OcuU magni, grosse granulati. Antennce 

 medianse, breves ; scapo gradatim incrassato ; funiculo 7-articu- 

 lato, art. primo longiusculo, secundo obconico, cseteris brevibus, 

 gradatim crassioribus ; clava ovata. Prothorax cylindricus, 

 antice paulo angustior, lobis ocularibus parum productis. 

 Elytra prothorace duplo latiora, brevia, valde convexa, lateri- 

 bus apicem versus sensim angustiora. Pedes graciles ; femora 

 leviter incrassata, subtus dente minuto instructa ; tihice recta3, 

 unco subverticali armatse; tarsi triangulares, art. basali lon- 

 giusculo, secundo vix latiore, tertio dilatato, ultimo longiusculo ; 

 unguiculi liberi. Metasternum breviusculum. Abdomen seg- 

 mento secundo duobus sequentibus conjunctim breviore. Pro- 

 cessus intercoxalis antice augulatus. 

 The technical characters of this genus point to a position 



among the " Strangaliodides " of M. Lacordaire; but with none of 



