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closely punctulate. Moreover, the pattern formed by the black and 

 white hairs on the elytra as described are very different in con- 

 fertum from that formed by them in the present insect. 

 S. Australia ; on Eucalyptus blossom, near Quorn. 



PARNID^E. 

 Elmis tasmanicus, sp.no v. 



Modice elongatns ; piceo-niger, antennis palpis tarsisque rufes- 

 centibus, elytris ad basin et pone medium transversim rufo- 

 maculatis ; prothorace insequali sed hand latera versus 

 plicato, sat crebre sat fortiter punctulato ; elytris puncttilato- 

 striatis, puncturis in striis antice magnis retrorsura minoribus, 

 interstitiis sat planis coriaceis. [Long. 2\, lat, ^ line. 



Tasmania ; taken by Mr. Simson. 



PECTINICORNES. 

 Ceratognathus Froggatti, sp.nov. 



(J. Oblongus ; convexus ; crebre rugulose punctulatus ; niger, 

 squamis adpressis leete aurantiacis sparsim vestitus ; capita 

 supra tuberculis 2 parvis instructo ; mandibulis quam caput 

 longioribus, extus late fortiter auriculatis ; prothorace antice 

 sat angustato. 

 5. Mandibulis quam caput brevioribus nee auriculatis. 



[Long, (mands. incl.) 5-5^, lat. 2i lines. 

 In size, build and sculpture much like C. niger, Westw., but 

 differing from that species by the ]jresence of thinly scattered 

 blight orange scales, by the prothorax less transverse and quite 

 strongly narrowed in front, by the median erect lateral process 

 of the mandibles in the male being (not pointed and, at the apex, 

 spine-like, but) a broad almost quadrate lamina, and by the 

 decidedly greater convexity of the general form. The two well 

 dt'dned tubercles on the head distinguish this species from all its 

 other known congeners (they having a single, either conical or 

 bifid, tubercle). The lateral erect process of the mandibles in the 



