ME. F. P. PASCOE ON THE CURCULIONIDjE. 18l 



silaceo-pubesceiis ; rostro brevi, recto, confer tini oblongo-piinctato ; 

 antennis rufo-testaceis, scapo longiore, in medio curvato ; funiculo 

 articulo prime quam secundo paulo longiore ; clava minuscula ; pro- 

 thorace crebre punctato, antice raanifeste longitudinaliter lineatim 

 sulcato, lobo mediano lateribusque sat dense silaceo-pubescentibus j 

 scutello transverse, utrinque rotundato ; elytris prothorace baud la- 

 tioribus, striato-punctatis, leviter rugeso-granulatis, dorse pube si- 

 lacea sat dense vestitis ; corpore infra pube grisea sat dense tecte ; 

 pedibus rufo-brunneis. Long, 3 lin. 

 liab. South Australia (Adelaide). 



An oblong dai-k speciea, something like L. suhsignatus, but 

 with longer elytra in proportion to the prothorax, and the figura- 

 tion nearly obsolete. 



LiEMOSAccus USTULUS. L. suboblongus, niger; rostro brevi, recto, 

 confertim oblongo-punctato ; oculis prominulis ; antennis rufo- 

 testaceis ; scapo in medio curvato ; funiculo articulo prime valde 

 incrassato, secundo vix breviore ; clava majuscula ; prothorace cre- 

 berrime punctulate, apice tubulate, antice paule excavate, lebo me- 

 diano lateribusque griseo-pubescentibus ; scutello subtransverso, gla- 

 bre ; elytris parum nitidis, striato-punctatis, interstitiis rugeso-gra- 

 nulatis, prajsertim postice, regione scutellari sat dense griseo-pu- 

 bescentibus ; corpore infra crebre punctate j tibiis aliquando sub- 

 ferrugineis. Long. If lin. 



Hab. Adelaide (Melbourne). 



A small nearly black species, in outline like L. notafus, but 

 with a short rostrum and very prominent round eyes. 



Alcides m agister. (PI. TX. fig. 9.) A. oblengus, niger, ubi- 

 qx\e dense albido-squamesus, fuscesccnte varius, granulisque parvis 

 depressis adspersus ; capite perrecte ; rostro prothorace sesquilon- 

 giore, paulo arcuate, pallide fuscescenti-squamoso ; fimicule articulo 

 secundo quam prime duple longiore ; clava articulo basali ebcenico ; 

 oculis subrotundatis ; prothorace conico elytrisque basi saturate fu- 

 sccscentibus, in medio carinulate ; scutello parve, rotundato ; elytris 

 basi prothorace paulo latioribus, humeris rotundatis, lateribus sensira 

 angustieribus, striatis, interstitiis subcenvexis ; corpore infra pedibus- 

 que squamis niveis interjectis ; tibiis intermediis et posticis in medio 

 intus liaud angulatis. Long. 12 lin. 

 Hab. Aru. 



One of the finest of the Curculionidse, and without any obvious 

 aflBnity to any known species. Alcides, of which I have above 

 ninety species, is full of isolated forms ; but the ordinary generic 

 characters are insufficiently supported by habit, and, without a 

 large number of new genera, could not be satisfactorily used in 



