BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 
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summit with a patch of very fine reddish spines; on the ventral 
surface flattened and corrugated, each bearing a pair of very 
short conical legs : abdominal segments slightly smaller than the 
thorax, corrugated and clothed with similar fine spines as the 
thoracic segments. 
The larvae feed upon the stems of Persoonia lanceolata; entering 
through the bark a few inches above the surface of the ground, 
they bore holes towards the centre of the trunk, then turning 
upwards and hollowing out parallel chambers several inches long, 
and pupating at the end of the last chamber. I found one nearly 
perfect beetle, and several full-grown larvae early in July, at 
Hornsby. The beetle is about 7 lines in length, of a general 
slender and very graceful form compared with most of the weevils; 
black, but having a greyish tint from the fine clothing of grey 
hairs covering both dorsal and ventral sides. The snout is long, 
slender, and smooth, the thorax rugose, the elytra also rugose, 
with close deeply punctured stria?. 
It is not a very common beetle, but is generally found in pairs, 
about November, clinging to the twigs of small bushes. 
Axides dorsalis, Pascoe. 
Larva pale yellow, about 3 J lines in length when uncurled; 
when met with is nearly always lying with its back arched and 
the head nearly touching the tip of the abdomen; head oval, 
ferruginous, with two pale ochreous lines in the centre giving it a 
variegated appearance; jaws black, short, and angular; first 
thoracic segment small, 2nd and 3rd with the first seven abdominal 
segments of a uniform size; 8th and 9th forming a short broadly 
rounded tip. 
The larvae are very plentiful in May and J une in the stems of 
Astrotricha floccosa; they bore from the surface into the soft 
pithy centre, forming short cylindrical burrows, sometimes only 
one or two being together, but oftener in little colonies of ten or 
a dozen; their attacks cause the limb to swell and exude a lot of 
sticky strongly smelling aromatic resin, which burns very readily; 
