BY A. M. LteA. 739 



//a6. — Queensland : Cairns (E. Allen), Endeavour River (C. 

 French). 



In general appearance, strikingly close to U. bivittatiis, Vjut 

 with tips of elytra (juite strongly rounded, without the least 

 traces of notches or spines. The prothorax has four conspicuous 

 lines of subochreous pubescence, with the intervening spaces 

 highly polished and almost glabrous; but just outside of the sub- 

 median line, there are two small spots of clothing; the median 

 subglabrous space is unusually wide. On each elytron, a fairly 

 wide glabrous line commences on each shoulder, and is traceable 

 almost to apex; but, from about the middle, it is distinctly 

 narrowed and lightly clothed. The false suture of the eleventh 

 joint of antennfe is quite distinct on two of the specimens before 

 me, and traceable on the other. The corrugations of the pro- 

 thorax are strong, but, along the middle, the surface (except at 

 base and apex) is smooth and shining. 



Uracanthus maleficus, n.sp. 



(J. Piceo-castaneous, elytra and parts of appendages somewhat 

 paler. Densely clothed with short stramineous pubescence, 

 becoming almost golden on head and prothorax, on the latter 

 condensed into conspicuous vittse, leaving three polished and 

 almost glabrous spaces; sterna with almost golden pubescence, 

 somewhat longer and darker than on abdomen. 



Head with median line very narrow; clypeus with moderately 

 dense, partially concealed punctures, suture deep and .semicircular. 

 Antennae long and thin, fully two joints passing elytra, most of 

 the joints rather acutely produced on one side at apex, eleventh 

 about one fourth longer than tenth. Prothorax about twice as 

 long as the apical width, but this much less than that of the base, 

 sides somewhat dilated in middle, surface gently undulating and 

 smooth. Elytra considerably wider than prothorax, each at ape.x 

 semicircularly emargina.te and strongly bispinose, each with two 

 feeble elevations and remnants of a third; basal third with dense 

 and fairly coarse punctures, becoming much smaller to middle, 

 thence with very small ones only. Length {$^), 25-32 mm. 



