514 Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1910. 



sparsely and irregularly clothed. The rostrum is clothed at the 

 basal fifth only in the male, and not at all in the female. 



246. Apion Australasiae n. sp. 



Black, opaque ; antennae (club excepted) dull red. Densely 

 clothed with white or whitish pubescence, rostrum glabrous. 



Head with punctures and derm between eyes concealed. 

 Rostrurn scarcely longer than prothorax , thin , almost perfectly 

 straight ; cylindrical , except that it is slightly dilated close to 

 base ; impunctate except close to base. Antennae inserted very 

 close to base of rostrum. Prothorax about once and one third 

 as wide as long , sides moderately rounded ; with dense partially 

 concealed punctures. Elytra more than twice as long as wide, 

 sides very feebly increasing in width to beyond the middle ; strongly 

 striate - punctate , but punctures partially concealed ; interstices 

 about the width of striae. Legs rather long ; basal Joint of tarsi 

 somewhat inflated. Length (excluding rostrum) l^/g — l-^/g mm. 



Hab. — W. Australia : Rottnest Island (A. M. Lea) ; South 

 Australia (Macleay Museum); N. S. Wales: Wagga Wagga (W. W. 

 Froggatt) ; Tasmania : Swansea (Lea). 



In the table given by me (in Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1898, p. 614) this species would be placed with pudicum, from 

 which it is easily distinguished by its smaller size , denser 

 clothing , different shape and almost perfectly straight rostrum, 

 the rostrum in fact from most directions appears to be quite 

 straight. 



One specimen (perhaps immature) has the rostrum, legs and 

 antennae dull red. The clothing at a glance (except for the 

 rostrum) appears to be uniform throughout, but on the elytra it 

 is longer and somewhat denser on the interstices than on the 

 walls of the striae, in consequence they appear to be lightly but 

 distinctly lineate. On most of the specimens before me the 

 clothing is uniformly white, but it varies to uniformly stramineous. 

 The species occurs on several species of pine trees. 



247. Apion cy lindriro str e n. sp. 



Black, opaque ; legs antennae and rostrum dull red. Densely 

 and uniformly (except that the rostrum is glabrous) clothed with 

 stramineous pubescence. 



Rostrum slightly shorter than prothorax, thin and perfectly 

 straight. Prothorax very little wider than long ; with small, 

 dense, concealed punctures. Elytra less parallel-sided than in the 

 preceding species , and with somewhat narrower striae. Length 

 (excluding rostrum) 2 — 2^/^ mm. 



