80 OX THE GLAPUYEID.T'] OF NEW HOLLAND, 



cordaire lietween the male and female in the club of the antennas ; 

 but I have uniformly observed that the male has the interior 

 unguis of the fore feet, and sometimes the terminal joint of the 

 tarsi more or less enlarged. 



The larvae of the insects of this genus are as yet unknown, 

 but there is no reason to suppose that they differ in habit from 

 those of their allies in other parts of the world ; indeed, I know of 

 iastances in which the perfect insects of some of the species have 

 been found in numbers under the surface of the ground. 



The perfect insects frequent flowers, and in the early part of 

 summer they may be found in immense numbers on those of the 

 Leptospermum and other Myrtaceous plants which blossom so 

 abundantly at that season. Though some species are to be 

 found in all parts of Australia, the eastern coast of New South 

 Wales is evidently what the late ]\Ir. Kirby would have called 

 their Metropolis. 



Sect. 1. 



Maxillte with the inner lobe curved and dentiform. Palpi 

 long and filiform. Body not hairy. 



Sp. ] . Phyllotocos MacLeayi Fisch, (Mem. des Nat. de 

 Moscou, t. Vr. p. 255.) 



Macrotliops prceusta Boisd. (Voy. de 1' Astrol. p. 210.) 



" Testaceus nitidus, elytris striatis apice ventreque fuscis." 

 Burm. 



Long. 4 lin., lat. If lin. 



Hab. New South Wales and Victoria. 



The desci'iption of this species given above is taken from 

 Burmeister's Handb. der Entom., Vol. 3, p. 183. It is meagre 

 enough and in one particular incorrect, for the fuscous venter is 

 not invariably present. The species is found clustered on flowers 

 in immense numbers about the middle of summer, and seems to be 

 more general in its taste than most of the other species, which 

 are seldom found on any flowers but those of Leptospermum and 

 allied genera. I have seen specimens from Melbourne, but have 

 never got them from any place far north of Sydney. " 



