Lea, Notes oti Australian Curculionidae. 161 



raised interstices are in addition clothed with dense setae. The 

 tubercle on each Shoulder is small, but conical and very distinct, 

 and points obliquely backwards. The ocular lobes are almost 

 angular. 



The only other species (amongst several allied genera) de- 

 scribed by Pascoe as having armed Shoulders is Enchymus humeralis, 

 which is Said to have the prothorax "albido trivittato" and 

 should have the ocular lobes very feeble. 



Poly phr ades nitidilahris Germ. 

 A variable species in size , as it ranges from 5 to 9 mm. 

 The scales are usually of a muddy grey, but occasionally have a 

 faint golden gloss, and are sometimes feebly variegated. Numerous 

 specimens are in the collections of the Entomological Society of 

 Berlin and the Belgian Museum. Of the latter one specimen is 

 labelled Catalalus ohscurus Germ. ^) and smother Pobj phr ades miirimis 

 Seh. ; both these names apparently being wrong. 



Po hj phr ad es fortis Blackb. 



A specimen from Victoria , in the collection of the Society 

 evidently belongs to this species. The type was described as 

 possibly abraded, and this appears to be the case, as this second 

 one is uniformly covered (except at the sides, where the clothing 

 is much denser and paler) with minute rounded scales, becoming 

 mixed, on the bind parts of the elytra, with sparse stout setae. 



AmpcteHdes. 



S der orr hinus multig r anulatus n. sp. 



Black. Densely clothed with short, stout, setose pubescence 

 (scarcely scales) , more or less stramineous in colour ; on the 

 under surface much sparser and more or less Condensed into spots, 

 of which there are three on each abdominal segment. With rather 

 thin and long, reddish, suberect setae. 



Rostrum about twice as wide as long , almost the width of 

 head ; with a wide shallow median impression, each side of which 

 is bounded by a fairly deep groove , the two grooves not con- 

 tinuous to apex and at base abruptly turned inwards but not 

 meeting. Prothorax moderately transverse, sides strongly rounded ; 

 with numerous large , isolated granules , smaller in middle than 

 elsewhere. Elytra broad , at base almost as wide as widest 



1) A name omitted from Master's catalogue, but published at 

 page 218 of Germar's paper in Linn. Ent. 



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