BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 
305 
CURCULIONID JE. 
SOSYTELUS RUGICOLLIS, n.sp. 
Short, thick, rough, opaque. Black; claws feebly diluted with 
red. Extremely minutely punctate all over. Base of head and 
antennae with small griseous scales, smaller, sparser and duller at 
sides of prothorax, undersurface and legs. 
Head short, thick; with short setae; a moderately large tubercle 
close to the eyes; rostrum excavated, at its apex a triangular and 
raised emargination. Disk of prothorax with three excavations, 
the central one continuous from base to apex, and open at both 
ends, the lateral ones a little shorter, semicircular outwards, 
closed at apex, irregularly and narrowly open behind; on the 
summits of the excavations and the sides there are a number of 
large, shallow setose punctures, some of them in the centre of a 
feebly raised tubercle; sides angularly produced in the middle. 
Elytra not twice the length of head and prothorax combined; the 
disk very feebly striate-punctate, each puncture carrying a small 
seta, at the sides the striae are five in number and very feeble, 
but the punctures are rather large and distinct; the 3rd and 6th 
interstices strongly raised, costiform and setose, the 3rd slightly 
produced at the base, interrupted towards and tuberculate at 
apex; the 6th produced at the shoulders, extending for about a 
fourth the length of prothorax, interrupted towards and tuber- 
culate at apex; in consequence of the interruptions of these costce 
there is a transverse row of four tubercles; these when looked at 
from behind appear as short conical elevations, the two outer 
more obtuse; apical third declivous, with rows of rather strong 
punctures, the strongest close to suture. Sterna irregularly 
punctate, apex of mesosternum with three transverse rows of 
strong punctures. Abdominal segments obsoletely punctate. Legs 
rather short, setose, the coxre irregularly punctate and densely 
setose. Length 1 0 J, width 4 J mm. 
Hob. — Queahbeyan, N.S.W. 
