Colcoptcra of Kiny Idmid. 201 



traeed. The last from the Huon Kiver (Tasmania) is smaller 

 still (7-^ mm.), the patch is also very indistinct, the antennae 

 (exceptint; the club) are entirely pale, the legs are also pale 

 with the exception of the tips of the tibiae, and the prothorax 

 and elytra are reddish. On all four specimens the suture, near 

 and on the posterior declivity, is alternately marked with black 

 and white spots. 



'l-~. Xvnotropis niicmis, Blackb. 



Ci:j{amhycii)Ai:. 



22S. Toxeiites d/citaiits, Fahi-. 



'I'lS). Enneaphyllus aeneipeniiis, Watli. 



1*30. Pliacodes ohsaims^ Fab. 



2H1. /-". personatiis. Ki-. 



232. Epithora dorsa/is, W. S. Maci. 



233. Callidiopsis scntellaris, Fab. 



234. Grdciliit pvi^^/iuiea, Kab. 



235. Plerasteiuis amco/or, W. S. INF. 



236. P. sitiuralis^ 01 i v. 



237. Amphirlwc decora^ Newm. 



238. Macrones piirpiireipes, u. sp. 



Black, ill places blackish brown ; appendages with a decided 

 bluish or purplish gloss; elytra whitish and semi-transparent, 

 but with the thickened parts blackish brown ; hind tarsi with 

 first and second joints flavous, the third dark brown, and the 

 fourth reddish. Under surface with dense, fine, greyish 

 pubescence. 



Head with numerous regularly distributed punctures ; with a 

 deeply impressed median line from near base to near clypeus. 

 Antennae extending to second segment of abdomen, first joint 

 as long ais three following combined, third longer than fourth, 

 the others regularly decreasing in length, but eleventh once and 

 one-half the length of tenth. Prothorax longer than wide, 

 irregularly transversely ^\Tinkled, with three tubercles (of which 

 one is lateral and the median one is veiy feeble) transvei-sely 

 placed at the basail third, and a feeble tubercular elevation on 



