Lea, Notes oii Australian Curculionklae. 169 



Hab. — Australia (Entomological Society of Berlin). 



The clothing varies from rather thin setae to elliptic or 

 ovate scales , and on the two specimens before me it is sparser 

 on the prothorax and basal half of elytra than elsewhere. The 

 apical half of the elytra is clothed almost solely with scales, but 

 although considerably denser than on the basal half, the two 

 portions are not sharply defined. Scales are fairly numerous 

 amongst the setae even on the femora. 



In general appearance rather close to several species of 

 Gonipterus^ but the subhumeral tubercles entirely absent, and the 

 mesosternum produced (rather feebly , however , for an Oxyops). 

 Gonipterus excavifrons (to which it bears a close resemblance) ; has 

 the mesosternum not at all produced , and the rostrum with a 

 wide , shallow , longitudinal depression. 0,ryops armatus (which 

 it also resembles) has armed Shoulders. 



Oxyops soror n. sp. 



Black. Parts of legs obscurely diluted with red. Moderately 

 clothed with whitish setae. 



Head with rather small partially concealed punctures ; inter- 

 ocular fovea very small. Rostrum scarcely as long as greatest 

 width ; with rather small punctures. Prothorax rather coarsely 

 granulate - punctate ; with a short and irregulär median carina. 

 Elytra with series of (for the genus) not very large punctures, 

 becoming smaller posteriorly ; interstices with irregularly distri- 

 buted granules. Intercoxal process of mesosternum acutely pro- 

 duced. Tibiae feebly denticulate. Length lO^/g mm. 



Hab. — Australia ^) (Entomological Society of Berlin). 



The setae , on both specimens before me , appear to form 

 three very feeble lines on the prothorax, and to be rather more 

 numerous on the bind part of elytra than on the rest of the 

 Upper surface , but they nowhere form distinct markings. The 

 granules on the elytra are numerous at the base, apex, sides and 

 suture and usually sparse elsewhere, but they are densest of all 

 (and on slight elevations but not tubercles) on the third inter- 

 stice at the base, and about the middle , on the suture close to 

 the base, and on the Shoulders. 



In general appearance remarkably close to the preceding 

 species (in fact at first I thought it possible that they were 

 partially abraded specimens of it), and with exactly similar out- 

 lines : but the setae are nowhere thickened so as to become 



^) Both specimens bear a small purple label used by M, Chas. 

 French to denote specimens from Queensland, 



