2G7 



A small and unusually pale species, but with the meta- 

 sternum dark. The two specimens in the Museum each has 

 the head flattened and irregularly depressed between the eyes 

 and towards the base ; but this may have been due to pressure 

 exerted to prevent the head from resting on the breast. 

 Regarding it as natural the species, in Blackburn's table, 

 would be associated with queen slandica (whose head is black) 

 and bipartite, (whose elytra are partly dark). If not natural 

 it would be associated with longipalpis and yorkensis (whose 

 heads, under-surfaces, and legs are black, and differ in many 

 other particulars). Helmsi has much coarser cephalic and 

 elytral punctures, and second joint of antennae even shorter. 



CURCULIONID^E. 

 SUBFAMILY BRACHYDERIDES. 



EUTINOPKLEA VARIEGATA, n. Sp. 



Dull reddish-brown, appendages paler. Densely clothed 

 with white or whitish scales, sometimes with a slight greenish 

 gloss; and conspicuously mottled with brown. 



Head with punctures concealed. Eyes unusually large. 

 Rostrum short, muzzle glabrous and polished. Scrobes pro- 

 duced slightly obliquely backwards, and then almost at right 

 angles downwards. Antennae rather short. Prothorax 

 slightly wider than long, sides rounded in middle; punctures 

 normally concealed. Elytra much wider than prothorax, 

 parallel-sided to apical third; with regular rows of large, 

 round punctures, appearing much smaller and suboblong 

 through clothing. Legs stout, front tibiae moderately curved. 

 Length, If -2 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland (H. Hacker), Cairns district (A. M. 

 Lea). Type, I. 2725. 



With the curved front tibiae of falcata, but smaller than 

 that species, eyes larger and closer together, scrobes somewhat 

 different, prothorax wider and clothing very different. Of the 

 five typical specimens no two have the scales exactly alike. 

 On the head and rostrum they are mostly white or stram- 

 ineous, with single dark scales scattered about and a large 

 dark patch on each side of base of head. The prothorax may 

 be conspicuously striped longitudinally, with the dark scales 

 confined to the stripes, or obscurely striped with dark scales 

 scattered singly. The scutellum is glabrous, but immediately 

 behind it the scales are snowy. On the elytra the pale scales 

 are mostly tinged with brown, but there are numerous small 

 dark spots scattered about; on some specimens there is a 

 large rounded one on each elytron at about the basal third. 



