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beyond the middle by a band of five white spots : two minute white 

 spots near the apex. Posterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a 

 band of four minute white spots. 



Under-side as above, except that the spots of the anterior wing 

 are smaller. 



Exp. 2 inches. Hab. Ecuador. 



Unlike any other species, but nearest to P. Perita of Hewitson. 



The males of this species have the white spots much smaller, and 

 in some specimens scarcely visible on either side. 



This and the four preceding species are from the very rich collection 

 of Mr. Buckley. 



Oatlands, Weybridge : September, 1869. 



ON SOME NEW AUSTEALIAN GENERA AND SPECIES OF CURCULIONID& 

 BELONGING TO THE OTIORBYNCHINJE. 



BY FRANCIS P. PASCOE, F.L.S., &c. 



In Lacordaire's system, the Otiorhynchince form one of the sub- 

 families, or as they are there called " tribes," of that portion of the 

 Ourculionidae in which the mentum occupies the whole area of the 

 mouth, and the sides of the prothorax behind the eyes are not produced 

 into what is called the ocular lobe. The Australian beetle-fauna con- 

 tains a number of genera and species almost entirely unknown, or 

 undescribed, belonging to this sub-family, and those in my collection 

 having the corbels of the posterior tibia; open, and the claws free,* 

 form the subject of the following notes. Some, in habit and colour, 

 simulate species of Peritelus ; others, belonging to the genus Myllocerus, 

 might be easily mistaken for Phyllolii. Eew of these insects exceed 

 four lines in length ; the scape of the antennse is very much curved in 

 all, and the elytra are always striate-punctate, with the interstices 

 flattish, and often furnished with a row of more or less erect stoutish 

 hairs ; the eyes are black, and contrast strongly with the pale coloration 

 of the scales with which these insects are covered. Erom their general 

 appearance and the quiet coloration of most of them they are probably 

 frequently confounded together and are therefore neglected ; probably 

 not a tithe of them is known. I have found it necessary to divide 

 these insects into four genera, (exclusive of Myllocerus, Schon.), which 

 may be tubulated thus :— 



* The first of these characters excludes Isomerinthus, and the second Merimnetes, both genera 

 having Australian species of very similar habit to those treated of in this paper. — F. P. P. 



