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fortiter transverse, antice modice cangustato, supra leviter 

 iriaeqaali, lateribus pone medium dente parvo obtuso armatis, 

 angulis posticis subdentiformibus ; elytris apice conjunctim 

 rotundatis, sat parallelis, lineis elevatis 4 vel 5 instructis (ex 

 his externis 2 antice abbreviatis). [I^ong. 9-J, lat. 3 J lines. 



The elytra are a little more than half again as wide as the 

 widest part (i.e., the base) of the prothorax and are about four 

 and a half times as long as that segment. 



N. Queensland; Cape York; in the collection of C. French, Esq. 



PHACODES OCCIDENTALIS, Sp.UOV. 



Sat brevis ; sat latus ; sat robustus ; piceo-ferrugineus, pube 

 albida sat dense submaculatim vestitus ; prothorace modice 

 transverso, sat crebre sat fortiter ruguloso, spatiis elevatis 

 nitidis nullis, lateribus in medio fere rectis hinc ad basin 

 coarctatis ad apicem (vix arcuatim) convergentibus, laterum 

 parte mediana recta postice extrorsum prominenti ; elytris 

 ad apicem medium spiniformibus, antice crebre postice sparsim 

 granulosis ; antennis (feminse) quam corpus brevioribus, arti- 

 culo 3° quam 1"^ vix quam 4"^^ haud multo longiori. 



[Long. 10, lat. 3 J lines. 



The sides of the prothorax are almost straight and parallel in 

 their middle part ; this straight portion is protuberant (as though 

 bearing an obtuse tubercle) at its basal end, whence the lateral 

 margins become strongly convergent hindward and then become 

 parallel again close to the base. The absence of nitid spaces on 

 the prothorax, the shortness of the 3rd joint of the antennae, and 

 the comparatively large size of the insect suffice in combination to 

 distinguish this species from its previously described congeners. 



W. Australia ; Ashburton district ; iu the collection of C. 

 French, Esq. 



Phoracantha elegans, sp.no v. 



Ferruginea, elytris flavo-testaceis, fusco-notatis ; corpore toto 

 (elytris exceptis) antennis pedibusque pube cinerea sat dense 



