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apex than base of rostrum ; two basal joints of funicle moder- 

 ately long; club ovate. Prothorax as long as wide, sides 

 rounded, base bisinuate, constriction slight, ocular lobes 

 almost rectangular. Scutellum minute. Elytra ovate, con- 

 vex, each separately rounded at base. Pectoral canal deep 

 and wide, terminated between four anterior coxae. Mesos- 

 ternal receptacle raised, almost crescent-shaped, emargination 

 rather widely transverse ; cavernous. Metasternum short ; 

 episterna not traceable. Abdomen with distinct sutures; 

 first segment rather large, as long as second and third com- 

 bined, apex incurved, intercoxal process rounded and rather 

 narrow ; third and fourth combined the length of fifth and 

 slightly shorter than second. Legs rather long; posterior 

 coxae touching elytra; femora feebly grooved, edentate, pos- 

 terior just passing elytra ; tibiae rounded, almost straight ; 

 tarsi rather short, third joint wide and deeply bilobed. 

 Elongate-ovate ; strongly convex, squamose, nontuberculate, 

 winged. 



Allied to Poropterus, but winged, the elytra separately 

 rounded at the base, the eyes very finely faceted, and the 

 femora feebly grooved. 



Pteroporopterus lacunosus, n. sp. 



Of a rather dark reddish-brown. Moderately-densely 

 (dense on legs and rostrum) clothed with large, soft, dingy, 

 whitish scales ; prothorax and elytra, in addition, with stout, 

 suberect, sooty setae. 



Head and rostrum coarsely punctate, but punctures 

 scarcely traceable. Rostrum the length of prothorax, sides 

 incurved to middle : punctures unconcealed only at extreme 

 apex. Scape inserted two-fifths from apex of rostrum, the 

 length of six basal joints of funicle ; first joint of funicle 

 stouter and almost twice the length of second, fourth to 

 sixth feebly, seventh strongly transverse. Prothorax convex, 

 base lightly bisinuate, apex produced and rounded ; with 

 dense, round, and rather large, but shallow punctures. 

 Elytra elongate-ovate, not much wider than and about twice 

 the length of prothorax; with regular series of large, sub- 

 quadrate, clearly-defined and crowded, but not confluent, 

 punctures: interstices much narrower than punctures, each 

 appearing as a series of feeble granules (a granule at each 

 corner of a puncture). Under-surface coarsely but not clearly 

 punctate. Length, 6 mm. ; rostrum, 11 mm. ; width 

 f mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns (Macleay Museum). 



On the elytra the clothing (except on shoulders and pos- 

 terior declivity) is almost confined to the interstices, on the 



