726 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONID^E, IX., 



Acrotychreus fasciculatus Lea, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Walee r 



1895, p.307. 



Tychreus fasciculatus Lea. 



The type is from Sydney. There are now under observation- 

 two specimens from Cairns which are rather smaller (4 mm.); in 

 both there is a distinct white elongate spot behind each of the 

 large elytral tubercles; in the type these spots or stripes are 

 scarcely traceable. 



Ephrycus Pascoe. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 471. 



Head convex, almost concealed by prothorax; ocular fovea 

 absent or concealed. Eyes moderately large, round, finely faceted,, 

 distant. Rostrum the length of prothorax, curved, moderately 

 wide, slightly incurved to middle. Antennas moderately stout; 

 scape short, insertion variable; funicle with basal joint elongate, 

 3rd-7th transverse, club ovate, elliptic, or elliptic-ovate, rather 

 large, subadnate to funicle. Frothorax transverse, convex, sides 

 rounded, apex narrower than base, base truncate; ocular lobes 

 almost rectangular. Scutellum small, distinct. Elytra con- 

 siderably wider than prothorax, feebly convex, sides subparallel 

 to near apex, apex rounded. Pectoral canal wide and moderately 

 deep, terminated at raetasternum. Mesosternal receptacle slightly 

 transverse, sides feebly raised and very narrow; open. Meta- 

 sternum slightly shorter than basal segment of abdomen; episterna 

 rather large. Abdomen lightly convex, sutures distinct; two 

 basal segments large, 1st lightly incurved at apex, 3rd and 4th not 

 depressed, their combined length equal to that of 2nd and slightly 

 less or more than that of 5th. Legs moderately long; femora 

 somewhat thickened, indistinctly grooved, the middle pair dentate, 

 or all edentate, hind pair terminated before apex of abdomen; 

 tibiae compressed, almost straight; tarsi narrow, 3rd joint rather 

 wide and short, deeply bilobed, claw-joint elongate, glabrous;, 

 claws feeble. Elliptic, slightly convex, squamose, winged. 



