BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, P.L.S., tfcc. 323 



85. Egestria rubicunda. 



Head, thorax and under surface black, legs and elytra piceous. 

 red and nitid, the whole upper surface roughly punctate and 

 clothed with soft cinereous hair. Head large, square, labrum 

 very short and slightly emarginate, palpi thicker and shorter than 

 in E. hirtipennis. Mandibles prominent, acute and unarmed. 

 Antenna rather long, slender, compressed, the last joint much the 

 longest. Neck much constricted. Thorax elongate, of globular 

 shape, not broader than the head. Elytra broader than the 

 thorax, about three times the length and parallel-sided. Sterna 

 and abdomen nitid and slightly pubescent. 



Length, 3| lines. 

 JIab. — Cairns. 



Family CANTHARID^. 



86. Pal^strida coxcolor. 



Elongate, black with the back of the head, the thorax, and 

 the elytra deep red, finely punctate and of a plush-like lustre, and 

 the parts of the mouth and the presternum yellow. Head small, 

 eyes small and prominent, the space between the eyes depressed 

 and of a blackish colour. Maxillary palpi rather long, the 

 last joint slightly securiform. Antennae rather broadly compressed, 

 serrate, the joints slightly longer than broad, the second very 

 small, the third and fourth joints equal, the last elongate-oval. 

 Thorax about as long as broad, rounded on the sides, not broader 

 behind than in front, with three broad longitudinal impressions, 

 and raised interstices, these last showing a few small nodular- 

 looking irregularities. Scutellum black, nearly square. Elytra 

 broader than the thorax and five times the length, a little 



