Lea, Notes on Australian Curculionidae. 513 



A small species with apices of elytra unusually acute. In 

 Blackburn's table it would be associated with frater , from the 

 description of which it differs in having the third Joint of the 

 antennae slightly longer than the fourth, in not being black , in 

 the clothing, especially of the abdomen, being different, the head 

 not granulate etc. It is also apparently considerably narrower. 

 In my own table it would be associated with phoenicopterus , to 

 which in fact it is closely allied , but it differs in being con- 

 siderably smaller , in the clothing of abdomen , and in its more 

 acute apices of elytra. There are two specimens before me, both 

 probably female. 



245. Apion turhidum n. sp. 



Dark reddish brown, scutellum, suture, undersurface (wholly 

 or in part) , base and tip of rostrum , and the claws black. 

 Moderately clothed with whitish pubescence , denser on sides of 

 meso- and metasternum than elsewhere. 



Head with dense but normally concealed punctures. Rostrum 

 rather thin, lightly curved, about once and one fourth the length 

 of prothorax in female , slightly shorter in male ; with rather 

 numerous but small punctures. Antennae inserted at about one 

 fourth from base of rostrum. Prothorax about once and one 

 half as wide as long , sides lightly constricted near base and 

 apex, and feebly rounded in middle ; with rather dense but more 

 or less concealed punctures ; subbasal fovea very indistinct. 

 Elytra more than twice as long as wide ; with suboblong punc- 

 tures in rather strong Striae ; interstices much wider than Striae, 

 and with numerous normally concealed punctures. Length (ex- 

 cluding rostrum) l^/g — 2 mm. 



Hab. — Australia (Entomological Society) , S. Australia 

 (Macleay Museum). 



Regarding the species as being associated with philanthum, 

 it differs in being smaller , paler , with the legs but little paler 

 than the elytra , instead of strikingly different and the dispro- 

 portion between the rostrum of the sexes less pronounced. Integri- 

 colle, carpophagum, comosum, solani and anthidium are all larger 

 and paler, besides being different in other respects. From all the 

 other species it can be readily separated by my table. 



The two colours are nowhere sharply defined. There is a 

 Short transverse nude or seminude space about the middle of the 

 elytra, the space being bounded in front and behind by rather 

 denser clothing than usual, and usually interrupted at the suture, 

 so as to appear as two small spots. But the elytra frequently 

 appear (owing to the ease with which they are abraded) to be 



Deutsche Entomol. Zeitschrift 1910. Heft V. 34 



