BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 713 



quite satisfied is the true Euccdypti; it is probably the species 

 that de Chaudoir calls by the name. 



Pubescens ; sat parallelus ; testaceus vel rufo-testaceus ; elytris 

 (marginibuslateralibus et vitta discoidali postice gradatim attenuata 

 testaceis exceptis) nigro-piceis, abdominis apice infuscato ; pro- 

 thorace utrinque punctis setigeris 5 instructis, angulis posticis vix 

 distinctis ; elytris modice (ut F. australis) punctulatis substriatis, 

 interstitiis leviter convexis. [Long. 4^-5^, lat. 2-2^ lines. 



Maris tarsorum intermediorum articulis 1° (apice) et 2° subtus 

 spongiosis. 



Apart from the sexual characters this species is excessively close 

 to P. australis, Bej., from which it differs as follows : — its average 

 size is distinctly smaller ; its prothorax is very evidently shorter 

 (being slightly more than J again as wide as its length down the 

 middle) and is a little more emarginate in front ; the yellow 

 lateral margin of the elytra is wider (especially a little behind the 

 base where it is more than half as wide as the interval between it 

 and the juxta-sutural yellow vitta) and the juxta-sutural vitta is 

 shorter (scarcely reaching into the apical 5 of the elytron), with 

 its hinder part gradually and strongly narrowed. The punctura- 

 tion scarcely differs from that of C. australis, Dej. The suture is 

 narrowly rufo-testaceous, this colour being a little dilated imme- 

 diately behind the scutellum. 



Of the previously described species of Philophlceus having the 

 3rd joint of the intermediate tarsi not spongiose below and the 

 elytra with markings of the same type as those of P. australis, 

 only two others have 4 or 5 setigerous points on the border of 

 the prothorax and these {puherulus, Chaud., and quadripennis, 

 Chaud.), have the puncturation finer and denser than in P. aus- 

 tralis, while the former has the juxta-sutural yellow elytral vitta 

 not at all narrowed (" nullement amincie ") hindward, and the 

 latter inter alia has the prothorax less strongly emarginate in front 

 than that of P. australis, I have seen a fairly long series of 

 both sexes and find scarcely any variation. 



S. Australia ; I have not seen specimens from further East than 

 ITorke's Peninsula. 



