salient character consists in tlie remarkable rounded dilatation of 

 the elytra immediately behind the base, causing the elytra to be 

 suddenly swollen out (at a distance from the base equal to about 

 a (juarter of their whole length) to a very much greater width 

 than their width at any other part. This elytral structure is less 

 exaggerated in the small examples, which T take to be males, than 

 in the larger ones. 

 Everard Range. 

 F. satelles, Blackb. ? Among the Curculionidw of the Elder 

 Expedition are a number of large examples (from the Eraser 

 Range, and places eastof it) of Folyjihraden, all of them so much 

 abraded as to be unsuitable for description even if repr'esenta- 

 tives of an undescribed species. T believe them, however, to 

 be P. aateUf's, Blackb., which T characterised from examples 

 taken in 8.W. Australia. Mr. Pascoe has long ago (Tr. Ent. 

 Soc, 1872) stated that the sexes of I'olyphrades difter con- 

 siderably in form, and in the relative proportions of the 

 prothorax and elytra ; and also that the males are subject to 

 considerable variation in these respects. I believe this to be 

 the case, and that in recognition of its being so, the examples 

 I am discussing (although there is certainly no little variation 

 of form among them) should probably all be regarded as 

 conspecific ; admitting, nevertheless, that the examination of 

 specimens from which the pubescence had not been removed 

 might possibly lead to a different opinion. The species bears 

 no little resemblance to the common South Australian /*. 

 longipennis, Pasc, but is at once distinguished from it by the 

 very evidently coarser sculpture of the prothorax, and by the 

 difi'erent proportions of the joints in the funiculus of the 

 antennae. In F. longipennis the basal two joints are elongate, 

 the second not much shorter than the first; while joints 3-7 

 are much shorter and subequal inter se ; in F. satelles the 

 second joint is not very much moi'e than half as long as the 

 first, and not much longer than the third. I may take this 

 opportunity to remark that when I described F. satelles I 

 called the second joint of the funiculus, as compared with the 

 third, " vix longior," and that this phrase is scarcely correct, 

 and represents the disparity between the joints as less than 

 it really is, as the second joint is distinctly (though not 

 much) longer than the third. 

 F. ritgulosus, sp. nov. Piceus, s(juamis brunnoo-fuscis confertim 

 vestitus ; rostro 5-carinato, antice lamella atra glaljra 

 munito ; antennis prothoracis basin vix attingentibus, 

 funiculo ut F. tuiniduli ; scrobibus oculisque ut F. tumid'iUi 

 sed oculis vix tarn subtilitor granulatis ; prothorace quam 

 longiori (juarta parte (postice (juam antice parum persjjicue) 



