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Head moderately large, parallel-sided for a short distance 

 behind eyes, and then hind angles rather strongly rounded; 

 with crowded and small punctures, many of which are longi- 

 tudinally confluent; with a narrow and continuous shining 

 median line. Eyes small, medio-lateral and very prominent. 

 Antennae rather long. Prothorax very little longer than 

 wide, sides strongly rounded, but suddenly narrowed near 

 base; densely and finely longitudinally strigose. Elytra 

 elongate-elliptic, shoulders completely rounded off; with not 

 very dense and rather small, but sharply defined punctures, 

 becoming very small posteriorly. Legs moderately long. 

 Length, 2-2*25 mm. 



Hah. — South Australia: Port Lincoln (Rev. T. Black- 

 burn), Eyre Island (Prof. F. Wood Jones). Type, I. 15278. 



The prothorax is deeply striated and the head has a 

 shining median line as in A. intricatus, but it is larger than 

 that species and very differently coloured ; the elytra at first 

 appear to be uniformly coloured, but in certain lights the 

 base and a postmedian space appear to be very feebly 

 diluted with red. The apical half of the femora is darker 

 than the basal half, on the specimen from the island being 

 distinctly infuscated. The species is probably apterous. 



A specimen from the Swan River (taken by Mr. J. Clark 

 from a tussock of grass) probably represents a variety of the 

 species; it differs from the type in having the head and pro- 

 thorax paler (of a rather dark blood-red colour) and the elytra 

 uniformly pale castaneous; the median line on the head is 

 narrower (it almost vanishes in its middle), the elytral punc- 

 tures are larger, and the elytral pubescence is longer and more 

 upright. 



CURCULIONIDAE. 



Timareta crinita, Pasc. Numerous specimens, agreeing 

 well with others from Western Australia, were obtained on 

 Flinders and St. Francis Islands. On many of them the 

 prothorax has denser scales, forming a fairly conspicuous vitta 

 near each side; on the elytra the scales are condensed into 

 numerous spots, elsewhere they thinly cover the surface and 

 they are often absent from about the punctures, in conse- 

 quence the elytra to the naked eye have a distinctly spotted 

 appearance, although the scales are nearly always of a snowy 

 whiteness (except that on the suture they are slightly darker), 

 the place just beyond the incurved portion of the hind tibiae 

 of the male is more densely clothed with long hair than else- 

 where, and the middle of the incurved part appears very 

 thin from some directions. 



