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creamy-white elytra, make this a very showy beetle ; the female 

 is much larger, with simple antennae. 



Best gives a long account of this beetle, with a general descrip- 

 tion of the larva and of its mode of attacking the stems of Acacia 

 mollissima in a way somewhat different from that which obtains here. 

 He mentions the rarity of this beetle in the early collections, and 

 states that the reason it is so seldom found is that it climbs up 

 into the topmost branches of the tree as soon as it comes out, and 

 clings so tightly to the twigs that it is im[)0ssible to sliake it down. 



Hebecerus crocogaster, BoisduvaljVoy. Astrolabe, II. p. 492, 18. 



Larva semitransparent, brownish, with broad head and slender 

 segments fringed with short liairs on the margins; mouth ])arts 

 pale yellow, jaws large, ferruginous, black at tips ; head lai'ge, 

 rounded in front, square behind, smooth and shining on forehead, 

 a parallel furrow from behind the head to the base of the ninth 

 segment ; the last two segments smooth, cylindrical, with anal tip 

 small and rounded. 



The larva lives upon the dead wood of Acacia falcata, eating 

 away the sapwood just below the bark in irregular furrows, only 

 forming a small oval chamber below the bark in the sapwood in 

 which to undergo its transformation. My specimens were bred 

 in November from infested stems collected at St. Mary's, N.S.W., 

 in July. 



This little longicorn is a dark chocolate colour, closely covered 

 with fine hairs, the face, legs, and under side clothed with short 

 grey hairs, the basal half or each joint of the antennae whitish- 

 grey, the apical half covered with much longer close black hairs, 

 the thorax clothed with grey ; the elytra deeply and closely 

 punctured, covered with little patches of yellowish-brown hairs, 

 with a lighter coat of scattered longer black hairs. It lives and 

 breeds on the Black Wattle in Victoria, according to Mr. Best. 



EuPCECiLA AUSTRALASIA, Donovan, Epitom. Ins. N. Holl. 1805. 



Larva white, with the anal segments blackish fiom the earthy 

 matter contained in the intestines showing through, legs stout, 



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