BY A. SIDNEY OLLIFF. 7 



Head finely and moderately closely rugulose-punctate at the 

 base, sparingly punctured in front, almost impunctate in the 

 middle. Prothorax broadly transverse, the punctuation strong 

 and moderately close, inclining to rugosity near the anterior 

 margin ; the sides moderately strongly reflexed, nearly straight 

 for rather more than one half their length, then obliquely nar- 

 rowed to the anterior margin. Scutellum sparingly and not very 

 strongly punctured. Elytra nearly twice as long as the head and 

 prothorax together, moderately strongly rugulose-punctate, with 

 the two lateral pairs of striae indistinct, and the interstices broad, 

 the first (that between the suture and the first pair of striae) very 

 broad at the base and narrowed posteriorly ; the shoulders some- 

 what prominent. Beneath the sterna are thickly clothed with 

 long decumbent grey pubescence ; the abdomen pitchy, and very 

 finely punctured, the sides and the dorsal surface reddish. Length 

 16-18 mm. 



Wilcannia, Mossgiel, Walgett, and Clarence River, N. S. 

 Wales. 



This species is occasionally found in vast numbers in the dry 

 plain country in the Western division of the colony, flying by 

 day, and usually in the hot sunshine. All the specimens which 

 have come under my observation appear to belong to one sex — 

 presumably the male — as they present no differences in size or 

 structure. 



LONGICORNIA. 



NoTHOPHYSis Barnardi, sp.n. 



Elongate, sub-parallel, reddish castaneous, somewhat shining ; 

 sparingly clothed with fine yellowish pubescence ; anteunse very 

 robust, thickly clothed with fine yellowish pubescence ; head and 

 prothorax strongly and sparingly punctiired ; elytra very strongly 

 and moderately closely punctured above, less strongly and more 

 closely punctured near the sides, with the costse indistinct. 



Head more strongly punctured between the eyes than in front 

 or behind, with an abbreviated median line ; mandibles very 



