Those living in the dry western country are represented by curious wingless forms with very short stout snouts, and are usually found under logs and stones in open grass lands; while in the tropical scrubs they are chiefly arboreal, and frequently richly coloured. They are all vegetarian in their habits both in the larval and perfect states; some infest seeds, others destroy the buds, foliage or roots of plants and do a great deal of damage to farms and gardeners’ crops. About 1200 described species are listed in Masters’ Catalogue, and a great number of new species have been added during the last few years by Messrs. Blackburn and Lea in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of N.S. Wales, and Transactions of the Royal Society of S. Australia. Pascoe, one of the most prolific writers on this family, described a great many between the years 1869–1883 (Journ. Linn. Soc. & Ann. Nat. Hist.). They have been divided into a number of sub-families, among which only the most important can be noticed here. The remarkable Long-necked Weevil, _Rhadinosomus lacordairei_, measures under ½ an inch in length; is of a uniform dull reddish brown tint with a silvery white spot on either side of the rounded elytra, which are produced into a spine on each side. It breeds in the cavity in the large _Brachyscelid_ galls, feeding on the woody tissue; Lea says that in Tasmania it is a pest to strawberry growers. The members of the Genus _Myllocerus_ are dainty little oval weevils found resting upon grass stalks or among the foliage of small shrubs peculiar to North Queensland and North West Australia. _Myllocerus carinatus_ is about ⅓ of an inch in length, and is finely striated and densely clothed with metallic green scales. _Catasarcus spinipennis_ is another West Australian insect of a brownish buff tint, with the abdomen broadly rounded; and the hind portions of the elytra covered with sharp spines. About 40 species of this genus are described, all of which with one exception are confined to West Australia. _Cherrus ebeninus_ is one of the large stout black weevils common in the bush around Sydney, where it is usually found clinging to the twigs of the blood-wood, _Eucalyptus corymbosa_. It is black, with broad rugose thorax and ribbed wing covers. [Illustration: =Figs. 83= and=84.=--_Wattle Weevils._ =83.= _Rhinotia hœmoptera_ (Kirby). The Red Weevil. =84.= _Leptops tribulus_ (Fabr.). The Wattle “Pig-beetle.” (“Agricultural Gazette,” N.S.W.)]