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 CURCULIONID^E. 



ALCIDES. 



A. terrceregince , sp. nov. Sat parallelus ; sat cylindricus ; 



castaneus, prothorace antennis tarsis et corpore subtus 



obscurioribus ; pronoto ad latera dense albo-squamoso ;.. 



elytris maculis quinis albo-squamosis ornatis (sc. l a basali 



lineari longitudinali in interstitio 3° sita, 2 a parva in 



interstitio 7° hujus ad longitudinis medium sita, 3 a post- 



mediana in interstitio 3° sita, 4 a quam 3* vix posteriori in 



interstitio 7° sita, 5 a subapicali in interstitio 4° sita), corpore 



subtus plus minusve dense albo-squamoso ; rostro modice 



elongato leviter arcuato ; prothorace quam in medio longiori 



paullo latiori, subquadrato, sat crebre ruguloso ; scutello 



punctiformi ; elytris striatis, striis grossissime nee crebre 



punctulatis, interstitiis sat angustis sat rugulose punctulatis ; 



femoribus subtus dente magno serrato armatis ; tibiis 



arcuatis ; segmento ventrali 2° quam 3 US paullo longiori. 



Long, (rostr. excl.) 2|- 1.; lat., 1 1. 



This little species is very distinct from all -its congeners of 



which I have been able to see the descriptions ; from all its 



described Australian congeners it differs widely, inter alia, by 



the markings of its elytra, which consist of 5 spots on each 



elytron, one of them being an elongate line on the basal portion 



of the 3rd interstice and there being no spots on the suture or 



lateral margins. In shape it closely resembles A. brevicollis, 



Pasc. (as figured in Ann. Mus. Gen., 1885, T.I., fig. 7), but with 



the prothorax very much less transverse. In one of the examples 



before me there are traces of a scaly spot near the middle of the 



base of the pronotum. 



Queensland (near Charters Towers). 



ANTHRIBID^E. 



This family is somewhat numerously represented in Australia, 

 though but few of its genera seem to be plentiful in species and 

 but few of its species plentiful in individuals. Its Australian 

 genera (including the new ones I form in the following pages) 

 having more than doubled in number since the issue of Masters' 

 Catalogue in 1886, it seems desirable to furnish a table showing 

 their relation inter se. In trying to meet this requirement I 

 have in the* main followed the lines of Lacordaire's classification,, 

 adopting his principal division based upon the position of the 

 scrobes in which the antennae are inserted, and also his principal 

 division of the larger group (Pleuroceres, — having the scrobes 

 lateral) into two aggregates with the transverse carina of the 

 pronotum (a) antebasal (b) basal. Lacordaire's principal character 

 for dividing the second main group (Anoceres) does not at present 



