BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, P.L.S., «fec. 517 



finely punctate, rounded on the sides, scarcely sinuate at the Vjase ; 

 the margins broad, flat, and of a lighter reddish yellow, the 

 anterior angles as in E. Westvjoodi, the posterior less prominent. 

 Elytra rounded laterally, rather pointed at the apex, an oblique 

 boss on each side near the shoulders ; each elytron has a small 

 elevation or gibbosity about the middle of the length on the groove 

 separating the disk and margin, and four black spots, two near the 

 base, another large one about the middle near the suture, and a 

 fourth behind and near the margin, the suture elevated. The disk 

 of the elytra is strongly punctate, the margins are broad, flat, 

 narrowing to the apex, impunctate, a little folded above on the 

 border and of the same colour as the margin of the thorax. The 

 undersuiface of the body, the legs and the antennae of a nitid 

 brown. 



Long. 6i lines, lat. 5 lines. 



Mab. — New South Wales. 



In the Atlas to Lacordaire's Gen. Col. t. 55, fig. 3, a figure of 

 what is called Eucephalus suhmaculatus is given; it appears to me,, 

 however, to be undoubtedly intended to represent Eacara 

 Lacordairei, a species described further on. The mistake is readily 

 accounted for. Encara suhinaculatum has long passed in most 

 collections in Australia and elsewhere as Encara Westwoodii, and 

 the name Westwoodii being thus appropriated, the only other 

 species known in N. S. Wales was generally accepted as E. 

 submaculatum. This insect is by no means common, though it 

 has a wide raiage, being found over most parts of New South 

 Wales ; it is generally found on trees, or posts on warm sunny days. 

 When first taken it is, as in the rest of the genus, covered with 

 a whitish secretion, filamentous or powdery, but apparently 

 never to the degree seen in a species from Queensland, E. floccosum, 

 Pascoe, mentioned hereafter. 



3. Encara Bremei, Hope. 



IlelcBus Bremei, Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1846, Yol. V, 

 p. 54. pi. VI. tig. 5. 



