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ADDITIONS TO THE INSECT-FAUNA OF LORD HOWE 



ISLAND, AND DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW AUSTRALIAN 



COLEOPTERA. 



By a. Sidney Olliff, 



Entomologist at the Australian Museum and Department of 

 Agriculture, New South. Wales. 



The present paper contains descriptions of two Longicorn 

 beetles from Lord Howe Island, obtained since the publication 

 of my report on the insect-fauna of that island,* and of two 

 Coleoptera from the Australian Continent which, for various 

 reasons, it is desirable to name. Opportunity has been 

 also taken to publish figures of the following recently 

 described Longicorns : — ToxeAites rasilis, from Norfolk Island ; 

 Rhytiphora rosn, from Coonamble, N S. Wales ; Monoliammus 

 (i^stJieticus, from Cloncurry ; and J/, artius and Notliopliyds 

 harnardi, from Diiaringa, Queensland. 



RUTELID-E. 



ANOPLOGNAXnUS PUNCTUI-ATUS, sp. )K 



(PI. X., Figs. 8, 8«, 8b.) 



Ovate, bronze-green, shining, finely and closely punctured ; 

 front of head and margins of the prothorax and elytra inclining 

 to coppery, the latter with the striae almost obsolete ; pygidium 

 densely pubescent and setose. Head finely and very closely 

 punctured ; clypeus narrowed behind, with the anterior margin 

 strongly reflexed in the male, the angles prominent ; in the 

 female regularly rounded. Anteunsie reddish testaceous. Pro- 

 thorax strongly rovmded in front, the punctuation fine and 

 exceedingly close at the sides. Scutellum very finely and 

 sparingly punctured. Elytra ample, arcuately narrowed 

 behind, finely and closely punctured, the punctuation rather 

 finer at the sides. Legs and underside bronzy-green, clothed 

 with long silky grey pubescence. Length 21-23 mm. 



Mt. Bellenden-Ker, Queensland. 



This species evidently belongs to that division of the genus 

 Anoplognathns in which the pygidium in both sexes is clothed 

 with hair. In general /aci^s it is near CaUoodes prasirms, Macl., 



* Lord Howe Island : its Zoology, Geology, and Physical Characters. — 

 Memoirs Aust. Mus. No. 2, 1889. 



