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ME. F. P. PASCOE ON THE CURCTJLIONID^. 



agricola ; in the large size of the two basal segments of the abdo- 

 men it agrees with the preceding ; but the first suture, dividing 

 the two segments, is only slightly apparent on the sides. 



Poropterus bisignatus. P. ovatus, supra subdepressus, fuscus, 

 umbrino, infra pedibusque griseo-squamosus ; rostro valido, sat bre- 

 viusculo ; antennis piceis ; funiculi articulo secundo primo fere duplo 

 lougiore, cseteris rotundatis, ultimo crassiore ; prothorace subobcordato, 

 antice supra valde producto, apice subbilobo, ante medium utrinque 

 conico, postice parallelo, sat confertim rude squamoso ; scutello in- 

 conspicuo ; elytris utrinque rotundatis, apicetn versus gradatim angu- 

 stioribus, postice rotundato-declivibus, grosse foveatis, interspatiis 

 confertim callosis, humeris antrorsum elevato-productis, bilobis, apice 

 late rotundatis ; mesosterno lato ; abdomine segmento secundo quam 

 tertio quartoque conjunctim breviore, sutura'prima distincta. Loug. 

 4 lin. 



Hab. Moreton Bay. 



The name is derived from two palish spots on the declivity of 

 the elytra ; but in rubbed specimens these are not very evident. 

 The chief diagnostics of this species are the form of the prothorax 

 and the elevated bilobed shoulders. 



Poropterus foveipennis. P. oblongo-ovatus, niger, parce griseo- 

 squamosus ; rostro valido, rude, basi seriatim, punctato ; antemris 

 piceis ; funiculi articulo secundo primo vix sesquilongiore ; prothorace 

 subobcordato, supra planato, antice valde producto, apice anguste ro- 

 tundato, basi prope scutellum fortiter biimpresso, raro irregulariter 

 punctato, tuberculis quatuor parvis in medio transversim sitis ; scu- 

 tello, ut videtur, nullo ; elytris subovalibus, modice convexis, prothorace 

 paulo latioribus, sat vage subseriatim foveatis, interspatiis irregula- 

 riter callosis, postice rotundato-deciivibus, tuberculis majusculis no- 

 tatis, humeris parum productis ; corpore infra pedibusque squamis 

 elougatis vestitis ; tibiis, prsesertim posticis, brevibus. Long. 3f-4 lin. 



Hab. New South Wales (Illawarra). 



In outline like the preceding, but, inter alia, with the apex of 

 the prothorax entire, the shoulders not lobed, short tibiae, &c. 

 Poropterus succosus, Boh., seems to me to be the same as Crypto- 

 rTiynchus succisus, Er. It is difficult to understand how so admirable 

 an entomologist as Erichson* could have satisfied himself with re- 

 ferring so many species to Cryptorliynchus, a name even now of 

 no definite meaning, without some notice of the structural pecu- 

 liarities that go to the differentiation of genera. 



* Wiegmann, Arch. 1842, i. pp. 202 et seqq. 



