BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 729 



former with moderately elongate and slightly darker scales not 

 condensed into fascicles, base speckled with white scales. 

 Scutellum with whitish or ochreous scales. Elytra with a distinct 

 but not sharply defined patch of whitish or pale ochreous scales r 

 commencing at the scutellum (where it is very narrow) and 

 suddenly dilated and terminated at about the basal third; four 

 very ill-defined patches of darker scales bordering its sides; inter- 

 stices with suberect and longer scales, frequently of a whitish 

 colour and causing the surface to appear speckled. Under 

 surface almost uniformly clothed with whitish scales. Legs 

 obscurely variegated. 



Rostrum feebly curved, noticeably increasing in width from near 

 base to near apex; scarcely visibly punctate. Scape stout, inserted 

 close to base of rostrum and terminated slightly beyond its middle; 

 funicle almost twice the length of scape, its first joint but little 

 shorter; club elliptic, almost the length of scape. Prothorax 

 convex, apex much narrower than base, sides dilated to near 

 base; punctures as in preceding species. Elytra convex, not once 

 and one-half the width of prothorax, base straight, shoulders 

 square, sides parallel to near apex; striate-punctate, punctures 

 rather large, quadrate, suffused with piceous, more or less con- 

 cealed; interstices regularly convex. Under surface moderately 

 strongly punctate. Third and 4th segments of abdomen flat, their 

 combined length equal to that of 2nd and slightly more than that 

 of 5th. Femora edentate. Length 2J, rostrum \\ width 1 mm. 



Hob.— N. S.W.: Forest Reefs. 



The somewhat triangular patch of pale scales on the elytra is 

 nearly always traceable, but on several specimens the clothing 

 consists of alternate and very ill-defined zones of dingy ochreous 

 and dingy brown scales. 



EPHRYCUS ERYTHRiEUS, n.sp. 



Dull red, rostrum shining and of a paler red. Upper surface 

 obscurely mottled with ochreous and dark scales, a few whitish 

 elongate scales sprinkled about, and on several specimens the 

 elytra with very indistinct bands of pale scales; scutellum with 

 whitish scales. Under surface and legs with dingy white scales. 



