BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 269 



clothe the sides of Umt segment, are condensed to form a number 

 of spots irregularly placed all over the elytra and are vaguely 

 spotted over the undersurface. 



This species is characterised by the rich bright green (neither 

 pale nor golden) of its squamose markings. In Mr. Pascoe's 

 tabulation (referred to above) it must be placed, I think, beside 

 M. nasutus, Pasc, owing to the form of its rostrum, which, how- 

 ever, is not quite so broad and quadrate as in M. torridus, Blackb. 

 It does not seem to be very near any of the species from Cape 

 York subsequently described by Mr. Pascoe. Abraded examples 

 are almost black, and the elytral interstices in these are seen to 

 be somewhat convex. 



Sent by Mr. French as from Tasmania and W. Australia. 



(EREMNIN.E.) 



Pephricus vittaticeps, sp.nov. 



Obscurus, squamis fuscis testaceisque et setis suberectis recurvis 

 vestitus, rostri apice et antennis plus minusve rufo-testaceis ; 

 rostro autrorsum minus angustato, supra sat piano, scrobibus 

 supernis, approximatis ; oculis ovalibus infra vix acuminatis ; 

 capite mediana vitta testacea ornato et oculis squamis testa- 

 ceis intus marginatis; prothorace leviter transverso, lateribus 

 modice arcuatis ; scutello nullo ; elytris quam prothorax 

 tertia parte latioribus, basi leviter emarginatis, sat fortiter 

 punctulato-striatis, lateribus modice rotundatis. 



[Long. 1|-1A, lat. I line. 

 The structural characters are identical with those of Pejjhricus 

 squalidus, Blackb., (Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A. 1892, p. 231), which 

 this species much resembles but from which it differs inter alia 

 by its considerably smaller size, the conspicuous testaceous mark- 

 ings of its head, and the better define'd sculpture of its elytra. 

 Regarding the fuscous scales as forming the groundcolour, the 

 testaceous scales almost cover the rostrum and form the markings 

 already described on the head, two interrupted vittse on the 

 prothorax, and a number of small spots on the elytra. The 



