BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 193 



vestitis; antennis (feminse ?) quam corpus parum loDgioribus, 

 articulis 1° 3° 4°que longitudine inter se fere sequalibus, 

 articulis 3-5 sat fortiter spinosis ; prothorace 5-tuberculato 

 utrinque spina laterali armato ; elytris in partibiis diiabus 

 anterioribus crassissime postice sat fortiter nee crasse punc- 

 tiilatis ad apicem sirgulatim fortiter 2-bpinosis. 



[Long. 10, lat. 24 lines. 

 The pubescence is dense over the whole body except the elytra, 

 the sculpture of the head and prothorax being almost buried 

 beneath it ; on the elytra it is thinly dispersed and inconspicuous. 

 The elytra are yellowish-testaceous, a little clouded here and there 

 with brownish-testaceous, the apical one-fourth part being slightly 

 darker. The fuscous markings on the elytra consist of a narrow 

 very strongly zigzagged line a little in front of the middle, much 

 like that in a similar position on the elytra of Coftocercus ruhrijyes, 

 Boisd., a spot on the lateral margin placed a little behind the base, 

 and a transverse mark about half-way between the middle and the 

 apex resembling a broad blotchy zigzag, which becomes narrow 

 close to the lateral margins, where it is turned hindward and runs 

 back nearly to the apex. The general build of the insect is very 

 similar to that of P. fallax^ Pasc. 



I do not think this species can be identical with any of the very 

 briefly described Phoracanthce of Hope ; of these acanthocerus 

 seems to differ inter alia by its black undersurface, and trimacu- 

 latus to have very diflerently marked elytra ; the others seem to 

 be not much like the present insect. 



W. Australia ; taken by E. Meyrick, Esq. 



Phoracantha posticalis, sp.nov. 



Subtus rufo-picea ; supra nigra, elytris fasciis binis indetermi- 

 natis testaceis (altera antemediana altera vix postmediana) 

 ornatis, antennis pedibusque rufis ; parum pubescens ; anten- 

 nis (maris multo feminse paullo) quam corpus longioribus, 

 articulo 3° supra longitudinaliter vix sulcato, articulis 3-7 

 sat fortiter spinosis ; prothorace sat fortiter sat crebre rugu- 

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