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margins immediately in front of the middle and running in a fascia- 

 like form towards the suture, before reaching which, however, it 

 turns upward and runs forward towards the scutellum ; it is edged 

 before and behind, close to the lateral margin, by the whitest part 

 of. the elytral pilosity ; a fascia of blackish pilosity traverses the 

 elytra a little before the apex ; the elytra are bright red at the 

 base (much as in Monocrepidius Australasice) but the redness 

 being of the derm it is almost unnoticeable beneath the whitish 

 pilosity. Probably in a perfectly fresh specimen the elytra are 

 decidedly whitish with the subural region for the most part darker 

 and sending out (a) a festoon-like ramification on either side from 

 near the scutellum to the middle of the lateral margin, (b) a fascia- 

 like ramification on either side near the apex. The elytra are not 

 symmetrical in the example before me, one of them being almost 

 evenly rounded at the apex, — the other decidedly though lightly 

 emarginate-truncate. 



N. Territory of S. Australia ; taken by Dr. Bovill, 

 KB.— Sir William Macleay (Proc. L.S.N.S.W. 1888, p. 1240) 

 mentions an Alaus from King's Sound which he regards as a 

 var. oi A. funehris, Cand., distinguished by smaller size and the 

 presence of two round black spots on the prothorax. The 

 distinctive characters mentioned are certainly suggestive of the 

 present insect, which on the other hand is far too different from 

 funahris to be regarded as a var., the prothorax (e.g.) in funebris 

 being laterally dilated behind the front, with a bi-angular pro- 

 jection anteriorly and a strong tubercle in front of the scutellum. 



BOSTRYGHID.^. 



Species of this family seem to be rather numerous in Australia 

 although very few have been described, — viz., 3 species attributed 

 in Masters' Catalogue to Bostrychus, 4 to Rhizopertha, and one 

 since referred to a new genus, — Apatodes. B. Jesuita, Fab., 

 appears to be a genuine Bostrychus. Concerning the generic 

 characters of the four described by Sir William Macleay, there is 

 no information beyond their author calling two of them Bostry- 

 chus, and 2 Rhizopertha. The species described by Germar and 



