518 MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, NO. IV. 



Orbicular, testaceous brown, the antennae yellow. Thorax 

 convex in the middle and dyed with a blacker colour. Elytra 

 testaceous, subluteous, smooth, under a lens very densely punctu- 

 late. Body beneath of the same colour, legs pitchy red. 



Long. 6^ lines, lat. 4f lines. 



Hah. — Swan River, W. Australia. 



This is all the description given by the Rev. F. W. Hope of 

 this insect, and I have never seen it myself, but I have little doubt 

 that it has been rightly placed in this genus, even though its 

 author seems to regard it as having affinity to the genus Cilibe. 



4. Encara floccosum, Pascoe. 



Saragus Jlocaosus, Pascoe, Ann. Nat. Hist. 4thser. Vol. V. p. 100. 



" Broadly ovate, moderately convex, fulvous-testaceous, minutely 

 punctulate ; head small, eyes nearly contiguous ; antennae ferru- 

 ginous ; prothorax short, very transverse, brownish-testaceous, 

 the apex narrowly aud deeply emarginate ; elytra not carinate, 

 the suture raised, the expanded margins rather narrow ; body 

 beneath and legs dark brown, shining ; margins of the elytra 

 beneath broad, glossy-testaceous, minutely punctulate" (Pascoe). 



Long. 6 lines, lat. 5 lines. 



Hah. — Wide Bay, Queensland. 



This insect is winged and cannot therefore be a Saragus, and 

 it has all the characteristics of the genus Encara, not the least 

 noticeable being the flocculent growth or secretion which entirely 

 covers it, a peculiarity which exists in a lesser degree throughout 

 all the species of the genus Encara. 



Mr. Pascoe states, on the authority of Mr. Currey, that the 

 flocculent clothing of this insect is a fungus belonging to the 



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genus Isaria of Persoon ; and Mr. Masters observed that the 

 trunks of the trees on which he always found them were covered 

 •with a vegetable growth of a similar appearance. 



