Mr. A. White on Telocera Wollastoni. 355 



longer, and about equal in length; fifth, sixth, seventh and 



eighth joints about equal 



in length, each longer than 



the fourth; ninth, tenth 



and eleventh dilated, and 



forming a distinct club; 



the ninth triangular, trun- 

 cated at tip; the tenth 



somewhat cup-shaped; the 



eleventh somewhat globose, 



rounded at the tip; these 



last three joints slightly flat- 

 tened. 

 Thorax longer than wide, broadest about the middle, where it 



bulges but is not tubercled, narrower than elytra at the base. 

 Scutellum large, somewhat sunk, pointed. 

 Elytra narrow, elongated ; shoulders prominent. 

 Eyes largish, very much emarginate in front, near the insertion 



of antennae. 

 Femora strongly clavate. 



Telocera Wollastoni, n. s. 



T. capite, antennis, abdomine pedibusque nigris, thorace fasciaqu© 

 elytrorum transversa postmediana miniaceo-rubris, elytris cseruleo- 

 viridibus. Long. lin. 4. 



Hab. Australia (Moreton Bay ? Sydney?). 



Thomse Vernon Wollaston, Entomologo prsestantissimo, auctori operis 

 eximii, • Insecta Maderensia,' viatori indefesso, in scientia literisque 

 humanioribus erudito, coleopteron hoc pulchrum dedicatur. 



Antennae, head, abdomen and legs black. Thorax vermilion- 

 red, punctured, and thickly clothed with erect hairs. Elytra 

 at apex rounded, bluish green, with a broad red band across 

 them behind the middle, and colouring the suture and sides of 

 the elytron ; apex of elytra blackish blue ; the green before the 

 red band is tinged with blackish blue ; the shoulders are some- 

 what protuberant; elytra deeply punctate-striate, with erect 

 hairs. Scutellum black, with deeply grooved lines. Legs black, 

 with longish hairs ; tibiae, especially on the inside, clothed with 

 dense, silky, short hairs with a brownish tinge. 



Note.— The Taniotes Pazii of Rojas, from Venezuela, described and 

 figured in the Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856. t. . f. 2, is synonymous with 

 Lamia (Plectrodera) quadritceniator, White, described in the Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 1846, p. 48. The Museum specimen was from Guayaquil. 



