526 Lea, Notes on Australian Curculionidae. 



All four specimens before me are males and the front tarsi 

 are much less noticeably fimbriated than usual. The markings 

 are much like those of the above species in pattern , but are 

 much less sharply defined, the legs (although very long and thln) 

 are shorter and the pectoral spines muoh shorter. The non- 

 carinated rostrum would appear to be as in terrae-reginae , but 

 the pattern of the clothing and the elytral armature do not agree 

 with the description of that species. 



On the prothorax there are five whitish stripes — three 

 dorsal, two lateral — placed at almost even distances apart. On 

 the elytra the whitish scales have a more or less lineate arrange- 

 ment , but are most pronounced in a large subtriangular space 

 about the scutellum ; this space is connected along the suture 

 with a sudden triangulär extension near the apex. On one spe- 

 cimen the scales at the sides of the elytra have , from certain 

 directions, a very decided green metallic gloss, and a few similar 

 scales are on the prothorax. On the under surface the clothing 

 is mostly whitish, but with a dark stripe along the middle of 

 prosternum, the middle of the metasternum dark, with three dark 

 lateral spots (two of which are on each side piece) ; each segment 

 of abdomen has also most of its middle dark. On two specimens, 

 the hind femora have each a very acute and distinct tooth, with, 

 some distance behind it , a very small tooth (indistinct or in- 

 visible from most directions). On a third specimen the small 

 tooth is absent from each. On a fourth the right femur has an 

 acute tooth of the normal size and a very small second one, but 

 the left femur has the larger of the two teeth very small and 

 obtuse, and the smaller one very indistinct. 



