448 MU. I'. 1'. TASCOE ON THE CUllCULIONIDiE. 



stantes. Antennce inediocres, in medio rostri insertsD ; scapo 



oculum attingejite ; fmiiculo 7-articulato, art. primo majors se- 



cundoque obconicis, ca3teris sensim paulo brevioribus ; clava 



ovali. JProthorax brevia, convexus, aiitice valde angustus, po- 



stice latus, lateribus rotuudatus. Scutellum nullum. Elytra 



valde convexa, rotundata, prothoraci arete applicata. Eetnora 



elongata, valida, sublineares ; tihits valida), rect£B ; tarsi me- 



diocrea, art. tertio fortiter lobato, ultimo brevi ; unguiculi 



liberi. Rima pectoralis profunda, ad pedes intermedios pro- 



ducta, postice elevato-marginata. Ahdo^nen segmento primo 



maximo, tribua intermediis subsequalibus. Corpus breviter 



ovatum, globosum, interrupts squamosum. 



This genus belongs to M. Lacordaire's " groupe Tylodides," and 



to that portion which has the three intermediate segments of the 



abdomen nearly equal, and the sutures distinctly marked ; but 



only in the length of the femora, and then only to GlocMno- 



rJiimis, does it approach to any of its genera. The specimen 



described below, from the smoothness of its rostrum, is probably 



a female. 



Salcus GLOBOsus. (PI. XVII. fig. 2.) «S. niger, opacus ; rostrum versus 

 npicem sensim nitidum et minus punctatum ; antennis ferrugineis, 

 nitidis, clava pubescente ; jirothorace leviter et sat crebre punctato, 

 punctis singulis squamani flavescentem gerentibus; elytris seriatim 

 punctatis, punctis validis, squamigcris, squamis oblongis, intcrstitiis 

 squumis minutis rotundatis adspersis ; cori)ore infra, j)edibusque, 

 segmentis tribus intermediis exceptis, squamis nuinerosis approxi- 

 matis tectis. Long. 3g lin. 



Hah. Cape York. 



PiioTovALUS CRisTATus. P. oblongo-ovatus, niger, interrupte oclua- 

 ceo-squamosus; capite inter oculos bisulcato ; rostro baud carinato ; 

 protliorace fortiter granulato, in medio antice carina vix elevata ; 

 scutello parvo, cordiformi ; elytris breviusculis, punctato-sulcatis, 

 interstitiis granulatis, granulis nitidis, dorsi medio elevatis, piloso- 

 cristatis, pilis fuseis longiusculis ; infra pedibusque nigris, squamis 

 ochraceis dispersis. Long. 7 lin. 

 Hab. Queensland. 



A shortish species readily distinguished from the other two 

 by the hairy crest running along the ridge of the middle portion 

 of the elytra. The character of the funicle allies it to P. 

 ScMnherri, Waterh., rather than to P. d/romedarius, Bois. 



Rhadinosomus impkessus. R. pallide ferrugineus, subnitidusj ca- 

 pite pone oculos elongato-ovato, postice subito constricto, squamis 



