Lea, Notes on Australian Curculionidae. 155 



Leptopsides, 



Leptops ob es US n. sp. 



Black. Rather densely clothed with soft round muddy grey 

 scales , closely applied to derm. Upper surface with rather 

 numerous, stout , whitish setae , becoming longer and thinner on 

 linder surface and legs. 



Head with concealed punctures ; space between eyes rather 

 more depressed than usual. Rostrum not very stout; with a 

 strong median carina , on each side of which is a rather deep 

 depression ; sublateral sulci deep , closed at both ends ; scrobes 

 very shallow posteriorly. Antennae rather thin ; first Joint of 

 funicle the length of third, and very decidedly shorter than second. 

 Prothorax moderately transverse , sides strongly rounded ; with 

 numsrous large granules , many of which are conjoined to form 

 feeble short ridges ; with a moderately wide median Impression, 

 deeper in front than behind , and with an irregulär carina of 

 variable length in its middle. Scutellum smaller than usual. Elytra 

 widely ovate , more convex than usual ; near middle fully twice 

 the width of prothorax ; with rows of large but partiall y con- 

 cealed punctures ; interstices with small tubercles ; each side with 

 a small CatasarcusAike tubercle. Length 14 — 17 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland (Entomological Society), Cloncurry 

 (H. Hacker). 



The rostrum has three distinct carinae, of which te median 

 one terminates at the inter-ocular fovea, and the others slightly 

 behind it ; bui on specimens normally clothed the lateral carinae 

 are partially concealed. All the tubercles are small , and they 

 should perhaps be regarded as entirely absent from the even 

 interstices. On the suture a row of very small ones commences 

 near the middle, and terminates just below the summit of posterior 

 declivity , with the largest ibut still small) one at the summit 

 itself. On the third interstice the row commences nearer the 

 base, with its apical one marking the junction of the third and 

 seventh interstices. On the fifth the row commences near its 

 base and extends almost to its apex. The row on the seventh 

 is very feeble, and commences on the base and terminates about 

 the middle. On the ninth there is one small conical tubercle 

 near the base. 



In the table given in Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1906 , p. 314, 

 this species should be placed next to Horni] from the description 

 of which it differs in being considerably larger, some of the inter- 

 stices without tubercles, and the second Joint of the funicle con- 

 spicuously longer than the first. In some respects it resembles 



