732 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURCULIONIDjE, XI. 



middle. Elytra about once and one-fourth the width of pro- 

 thorax; striate-punctate, punctures suboblong; interstices flat,, 

 regular, considerably wider than punctures, finely punctate. 

 Under surface densely and moderately strongly punctate, the 3rd 

 and 4th segments of abdomen finely punctate. Length 8 J,, 

 rostrum 1^; width 3J; variation in length 7-9J mm. 



Q. Differs in having the rostrum glabrous except at extreme 

 base, the scape inserted nearer the base of rostrum, prothorax less 

 transverse, its sides towards apex less suddenly arcuate and the 

 median impressions shallower. 



Hab. — S.-W. Australia. 



Specimens may frequently be obtained on several species of 

 Xanthorrhoea, in the flowering-stems of which the larvae may 

 sometimes be found. The dark scales sometimes occupy the 

 greater part of the surface, sometimes scarcely one-third, and 

 frequently appear as more or less conjoined spots; there are 

 always two spots on the middle of the prothorax, and these are 

 sometimes continued to base and occasionally even to apex, so 

 that a median line of paler scales is left; the sides are often spotted. 

 On the elytra they are frequently condensed so as to form two 

 very irregular fascia?, one before the middle and the other on the 

 posterior declivity; these fasciae are always interrupted by spots 

 of paler scales, and are very variable in extent; on one specimen 

 there is a fascia about the middle and a few spots towards base, 

 but the rest of the surface with paler scales. The scutellum is- 

 usually clothed with pale scales, but on two specimens they are 

 black. 



