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MR. F. P. PASCOE ON TIIE CURCULIONIDiG. 



race haud cristato, apice valde producto, dorso granulato, in medio 

 profunde lineatim sulcato, utrinque angulatim dilatato, lateribus infra 

 confertim granulatis ; elytris subovatis, sat breviusculis, supra basin 

 versus granulatis, tuberculis conicis incanis in seriebus duabus, sin- 

 gulis quatuor constitutis, apice sat late rotundatis, lateribus fortiter 

 granulato-punctatis ; corpore infra vittaque ad latera nigris ; tarsis vix 

 elongatis, intermediis et posticis articulo basali majore, tumido. Long. 

 6 1in. 



Hab. Western Australia. 



This species has the prothorax like the preceding ; but, inter 

 alia, it has much shorter elytra, the first joint of the intermediate 

 and posterior tarsi swollen or enlarged, and the upper surface co- 

 vered with a greyish crust. 



G-eobyesa. 

 (Khyparosoininae.) 

 Caput retractum ; rostrum elongatum, arcuatum, ad basin quasi 

 abscissum : scrobes foveiformes, obliquae, ante medium rostri 

 sitae. Scapus clavatus, oculum attingens ; funiculus 7-articu- 

 latus (at quasi 5), articulo primo crassiore, secundo longiore, 

 caeteris subtransversis, ultimis duobus basin clavae simulantibus 

 (inde fun. quasi 5 art.). Oculi ovales, transversi, grosse gra- 

 nulati. Prothorax oblongus, basi apiceque eequalis, lobis ocu- 

 laribus nullis. Scutellum nullum. Elytra ovalia, basi protho- 

 race haud latiora. Femora in medio incrassata ; tibia recta?, ad 

 apicem arcuatae, apice ipso unguiculato ; tarsi breves, angusti, 

 articulo tertio bilobo ; unguiculi simplices, divergentes ; coxce 

 anticae sejunctae. Pectus apice late emarginatum. Metasternum 

 modice elongatum. Abdomen segmentis tertio quartoque bre- 

 vibus. 



A narrow form resembling Styphlus, but with the elytra at the base 

 not broader than the prothorax, to which they are closely applied, 

 and the last two joints of the funicle forming the basal half of the 

 club, the club itself being shortly conical ; the line of separation, 

 however, between the two joints is so indistinct that I am not 

 sure that it really exists. 



Geobyrsa nodifera. (PI. XIII. fig. 1.) G. anguste oblonga, nigra, 

 squamulis griseis omnino dense vestita ; rostro prothorace vix bre- 

 viore, seriatim longitudinaliter remote squamoso ; antennis squamu- 

 lis raris dispersis; prothorace latitudine manifeste longiore, utrin- 

 que parum rotundato, supra postice depresso, subnodoso, nodis circa 

 decern, scil. 4 apicalibus, 4 medianis, 2 basalibus ; elytris nodis sub- 



