•314 INSECTS OF THE CAIRNS DISTRICT, NORTHERN QUEENSLAND, 



to the knees and the anterior two-thirds of the tibiae which are 

 yellow. Some small specimens, which I take to be males, are of a 

 darker colour throughout, there being no reddish colouring on the 

 antennae, and the red of the elytra being reduced to a small vitta 

 in the middle. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Hob. — Russell River. 



61. Hybrenia subvittata. 



Oblong-oval, dark brown, sub-opaque, cinereo-pubescent. Head 

 minutely punctate, the clypeal suture close in front of the eyes 

 and deeply impressed. Thorax finely and densely punctate, trans- 

 verse, broader at the base than in front, the anterior angles 

 rounded ; the posterior square, and the base and apex truncate. 

 Scutellum small and triangular. Elytra moderately convex, 

 rather wider than the thorax, pointed at the apex, and densely 

 and rugosely punctate with eight striae on each elytron, the suture, 

 and the 5th and 8th interstices of a dark brown, the rest reddish 

 brown. Posterior tibiae with a hooked spur at the inner apex. 



Length, 7 lines. 



Hah. — Cairns. 



62. Hybrenia laticollis. 



Elongate-oval, moderately convex, black, nitid. Head very 

 thinly punctate and carinated between the eyes, which are very 

 large and close together. The antennae are long and slender at the 

 apex, the four apical joints reddish and pubescent, the last longer 

 than the preceding. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long ; thinly 

 punctate, not broader at the base than in front, the anterior angles 

 round, the posterior square and acute, the basal margin grooved 

 and very roughly punctate ; the median line very deeply impressed 

 with the disk convex on each side of it. Scutellum rounded 

 behind. Elytra wider than the thorax, five times the length and 

 pointed towards the apex, with eight complete striae and one 

 scutellar abbreviated one on each elytron deeply marked, and with 



