284 BRACHYTRIA. THORACICA. 



black , the d^^ and 4*^ joiat small , of about equal length , 

 the 5tli joint longer than the two foregoing ones taken to- 

 gether, the remainder gradually increasing in length. 



Prothorax short , broad , the frontmargin straight , the 

 sides gradually and rather strongly rounded towards the 

 top, very deeply emargiuated below the middle, the base 

 curved backwards ; brightly shining black , the frontmargin 

 bordered with a pale red stripe; the disk is impuuctate , 

 showing some traces of very indistinct gibbosities , and there 

 is a deep transverse impression near the base parallel with 

 a deep groove just along the base. Scutellum narrow , trian- 

 gular, rounded at the tip, subconcave, impunctate. 



Elytra with the basal half pale red , the apical half 

 smoky, darkest and slightly violaceous near the line of 

 demarkation, which amounts obliquely towards the suture. 

 There is a small oblong black spot on each side of the 

 scutellum , which touches the base. Below the scutellum and 

 at the line of demarkation between the red and smoky 

 parts , the reddish color is much paler ; these spots exactly 

 corresponding with the whitish spots of the hitherto des- 

 cribed species , I think it very probable that there may be 

 found specimens with distinctly spotted elytra. Each elytron 

 shows three elevated shining ridges , the innermost being 

 rather indistinct ; the interstices are dull , filled with large 

 and partly confluent punctures. Anteriorly the prosternum 

 is reddish , behind black , and shallowly punctured all over ; 

 the meso- and raetasternum are black, coarsel;y punctured, and 

 covered with a fulvous pubescence ; the mesosternal process 

 is rather strongly prominent and pointed; the abdomen is 

 shining black with the first segment reddish , very distantly 

 punctured ; the legs are shining black with the greater middle 

 part of the femora reddish. The whole body is very spa- 

 ringly covered with long and soft greyish hairs , which are 

 much more closely set at the apical portion of the elytra. 

 I received a single (ƒ specimen , captured by Mr. Hill 

 in the Mountain-district of Victoria. 



Notes from the Lieyden JMuseuxn. , Vol. XX. 



