Two New Species of EpMaltes. 227 



tibiae and tarsi fuscous; more than the basal half of the former 

 within pale, with their apex fuscous, outwardly forming a ring 

 at the base; the base of the first joint of the hinder tarsi white, 

 that of the second and third indistinctly so. Abdomen sessile, sub- 

 linear ; 1st segment with two ridges forming a channel between 

 them; 3rd and remainder covered with a short hoary pubescence ; 

 1st — 3rd elongate, the rest sub-quadrate. 

 Taken by F. Walker, Esq. 



XV. Note on the Strongylorbinus ochraceus of Schonherr, 

 and Descriptions of two nearly allied Species of 

 Curculionidse, from Australia. By G. R. Water- 

 house, Esq., F.Z.S,, &c. 



[Read 4th Nov. 1861.] 



The following notes and descriptions refer to three species of 

 CurculionidcE, from Australia, which were exhibited at the Society's 

 meeting. One of these insects is supposed to be the Strongylo- 

 rliinus ochraceus of Schonherr ; the other two are regarded as 

 members of a new genus, about to be characterized under the 

 name Jtelicus. 



Strongylorhinus ochraceus, I believe, has never been described, 

 but the insect exhibited is from the same locality (Tasmania) as 

 that given by Schonherr for his St. ochraceus : it agrees not only 

 with the generic characters laid down in the ',' Mantissa Secunda" 

 at p. 65, but likewise in the general colouring (as may be inferred 

 from the specific name) and in the following points, noticed in the 

 generic description, but which, in part, must be regarded as 

 specific, viz. — " corpus ohlongum, sub-cylindricum, convexutn, scidp- 

 (uratum, squamosum, alalum ; medice magnitudinis * * *. Elytra 

 has'i thoracis parte postica parum latiora illoque plus tr'iplo longiora, 

 linearia, hasi singulatim valde producta, singula elevato-bilobata, 

 humeris obtuse angulatis ; lateribus rectis, apicem versus attenuato- 

 rotundatn." It is extremely probable, then, that this is the 

 St. ochraceus of Schonherr. The insect is 6 lines in length, not 

 including the rostrum ; covered throughout with reddish-ochreous 



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