74 



Elasmostoma insulana, sp. n. 



(PL X, Fig. 7.) 



Elongate-ovate, dark fuscous, densely clothed with, very 

 fine decumbent griseous brown pubescence, and sparingly 

 covered with long erect hairs of the same colour. Head 

 with a distinct median line, slightly depressed behind the eyes ; 

 face with a few rather strong- punctures. Antennae rather 

 longer than the entire body, densely pubescent ; the basal 

 joint robust, the 2nd very short, the 4th rather longer than 

 the ord, the rest gradually shorter. Prothorax transverse, 

 very sparingly and rather strongly jiunctured in front, almost 

 impunctate behind, with two very strong obtuse posteriorly 

 curved tubercle-like spines in front on each side ; beneath the 

 second or hinderraost of these spines the lateral spine is 

 situated ; the anterior margin slightly impressed, the posterior 

 somewhat raised. Elytra rather more than twice as long as 

 the head and prothorax together, narrowed behind, strongly, 

 irregularly, and very sparingly punctured ; the humeral angles 

 minutely tuberculate ; the sides arcuately rounded at the apex; 

 each elytron with a longitudinal row of tlve tubercles at the 

 base, midway between the suture and the lateral margin. 

 Underside densely pubescent. Legs densely pubescent, and 

 sparingly setose, except on the external margins of the apical 

 half of the tibire, where the setfe are decumbent and dense. 

 Leng'th 20 mm. 



Lord Howe Island. 



Cebesium pbocerum, sp. n. 



(PI. X., Fig. 3.) 



Elongate, moderately convex, iinelj' clothed with grey 

 pubescence ; head, prothorax and underside piceons; antennfe, 

 elytra, and legs dark reddish testaceous. Head rather strongly 

 and irregularly punctured, the punctuation etfaced in the 

 middle at the base. Antenna? considerably longer than the 

 body, clothed with very fine reddish testaceovis pubescence, 

 the 1st joint somewhat enlarged. Prothorax nearly as long 

 as broad, narrowed both in front and behind, finelj", irregularly, 

 and sparingly punctured at the sides, more finely and very 

 sparingly punctured in the middle, with an obscure transverse 

 impression near the anterior margin. Scutellum closely 

 pubescent. Elytra parallel-sided, rather closely punctuate, the 

 punctuation arranged in irregular rows, coarse for the basal 

 two-thirds, and gradually decreasing in strength posteriorly, 

 with indistinct indications of three costee. Underside with 



