BY W. W. FROGGATT. 117 



The beetle is 9 lines in length, light brown, covered with grey- 

 pubescence, with a long slender head and antennae ; thorax long, 

 cylindrical, the anterior portion with irregular transverse corru- 

 gations, the posterior portion smooth ; legs long, pubescent, thighs 

 swollen ; elytra long, slender, very finely ribbed, truncate at tips, 

 the pubescence at the extremity forming a white fringe, with a 

 iine tooth on either side, the basal portion chocolate-brown, with a 

 shining square patch below each shoulder, the rest of elytra 

 lightly covered with grey pubescence, densest on the sides, with a 

 row of irregular bare spots along the outer margins. 



I have never taken this beetle at large, but have bred a number 

 of them ; they doubtless live on the twigs of the shrub in their 

 perfect state. 



Bethelium signiferum, Newman, Entomologist, 1840, p. 10. 



Several specimens of this longicorn were bred from twigs taken 

 from a dead tree of Acacia decurrens at Carlingford, all the 

 branches of which were swarming with beetle lai-vge. The earliest 

 to appear bred out towards the end of October, and the last in the 

 middle of November. 



It is 3 lines long, reddish-brown in colour, eyes very prominent, 

 head broad in front, the thorax rounded behind, the legs long, the 

 apical portion of femoi'a swollen and thickened into an oval lump ; 

 the elytra reddish-brown, mottled with dull yellow, giving it a 

 zig-zag pattern, and covered with scattered yellow hairs. 



Neissa inconspicua, Pascoe, Journ. Linn. Soc. Vol. ix. 1866, 

 p. 82, t. 3, f. 6. 



A number of specimens of this pretty little longicorn came out 

 of twigs of Acacia longifolia, collected at Rose Bay ; the tirst 

 was found in the breeding box on the 10th of July, but the bulk 

 of them appeared towards the end of October and early in 

 November. 



This is one of our smallest longicorns, being only 2 lines long, 

 of a chocolate-brown colour, with the antennae stout and hairy, the 

 base of each joint paler than the apex; a grey silvery line down 



