Lea, Notes on Australian Curculionidae. 5I9 



272. Haplonyx (Aolles) orhiculatus n. sp. 



Black or dull reddish brown with parts darker. Densely 

 clothed with large soft scales , mostly whitish ; but on parts of 

 the prothorax and elytra brownish or black. 



Rostrum straight and rather wide ; in female the length of 

 prothorax , in male somewhat shorter ; basal two-thirds with 

 seven very distinct costae, between which are rows of punctures, 

 apical third with dense and rather small punctures. Prothorax 

 more than twice as wide as long, apex feebly incurved to middle ; 

 with dense , partially concealed punctures. Elytra very little 

 wider than prothorax , and scarcely longer than wide ; with re- 

 gulär series of not very large punctures ; interstices much wider 

 than punctures and apparently with numerous small granules or 

 punctures. Femora strongly unidentate; front tibiae strongly bisi- 

 nuate ; tarsi with claw Joint very indistinct. Length 2^/4 — 3^/2 mm. 



Hab. — Australia (Entomological Society of Berlin) ; South 

 Australia (H. H. D. Griffith) ; Victoria: Birchip (J. C. Goudie). 



One of the specimens (excluding its clothing) is almost 

 entirely black, except for the prothorax and elytra, but the colour 

 usually appears to be of a dingy reddish brown, with the head 

 rostrum and scutellum black or blackish. The dark scales on 

 the elytra, whilst uniform in colour on the individual, vary from 

 a rather bright reddish brown to sooty black ; and , except for 

 a few white scales in the striae (and sometimes for a few feeble 

 spots on the interstices) occupy the whole of a more or less 

 circular space, leaving only the margins with whitish scales. From 

 directly above , however , only the base and apex appear to be 

 clothed with white scales. On the prothorax the dark scales 

 may occupy a small irregulär space on each side of the middle 

 only, or may cover almost the entire disc except for a few scattered 

 white ones. 



273. Haplonyx uniformis Lea. 

 The type of this species was the only specimen I had seen 

 at the time of its description. There are now six others before 

 me (three belonging to the Entomological Society, one of which 

 is labelled Oueensland , one from A. Bovie, without locality, and 

 two from Birchip in Victoria) and these demonstrate that the 

 species, although very distinct on account of its strm-tural 

 characters, is somewhat variable in clothing. One of the l^ii-^-l'ip 

 specimens has a number of vague pale spots on the apical luilf 

 of the elytra, so disposed as to form feeble oblique fasciae ; th.> 

 other has pale spots still less conspicuous , but in addition has 

 a rather large subtriangular patch of dark scales at th.' base ; 



