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with semi-decumbent setae, similar in colour to the scales 

 amongst which they are placed. 



Eostrum almost parallel-sided to near apex, with a feeble 

 and more or less concealed median carina. Antennae not very 

 thin ; scape almost straight ; first joint of funicle stouter and 

 longer than second, second longer but no stouter than third. 

 Prothorax moderately transverse, sides evenly rounded ; 

 densely granulate-punctate, but sculpture normally concealed. 

 Scutellum small, but round and very convex. Elytra rather 

 strongly convex, at base no wider than base of prothorax, 

 but sides strongly inflated to about middle, and then strongly 

 diminishing in width to apex : strongly striated, with fairly 

 large but partially-concealed punctures in striae; interstices 

 evenly rounded. Length (excluding rostrum), 3J-4J mm. 



Hab.— Queensland : Mount Tambourine, Gympie (H. 

 Hacker) . 



Larger than destructor , the elytra more inflated, scutel- 

 lum more conspicuous and elytra more variegated. 



The male differs from the female in being smaller and 

 narrower, with the elytra less inflated and the legs and 

 antennae somewhat longer. The derm varies from a rather 

 bright reddish-brown almost to black ; the apical segments of 

 the abdomen are sometimes reddish. The club is usually 

 darker than the rest of the antennae. The clothing is not 

 alike on any two of the five specimens before me. On the 

 type male it is of a dingy-grey, with a large parallel -sided, 

 chocolate-brown patch extending the whole length of the 

 prothorax ; similar scales clothe most of the elytra, but with 

 short spots of paler scales. On the type female it is also 

 grey, but somewhat mottled with ochreous, the brown scales 

 are absent from the prothorax, and on the elytra almost con- 

 fined to a rather wide curved fascia about summit of posterior 

 declivity. The other specimens have the clothing intermediate 

 in character. 



Merimnetes unifoemts, -Boh. 



This species was described as having the antennae and 

 legs black. The only species known to me in which both the 

 antennae and legs are black is one which I have from Mount 

 Victoria and Jenolan. < 2 ) It is, for the genus, a large species, 

 measuring 8 mm. (including the rostrum), a length exceeded 

 by only two species of the genus known to me. Boheman 

 described the species as slightly longer and narrower than 

 Otiorhynchus raucns, ( 3) and with this my specimens agree. 



(2) In New South Wales, the type was from New Holland. In 

 Masters' Catalogue it is recorded from Victoria. 



(3) Two specimens of 0. raucus before me measure 7 and 7^ 

 mm. respectively. 



