58 LIST OF CLEBID^. 



black ; femora at the base, and tip of the tibiae and tarsi, 

 fiilvous. All the palpi securiform. 



Length 3^ lines. 



Hob. Van Diemen s Land. 



NOTOXUS PUIiCHER, n. s. 



Of a deep metallic purplish blue, with two squarish yellow spots 

 on the back of the elytra before the middle, a yellow band 

 across the middle of elytra not extending to the suture, and an 

 oblique yellow spot on the tip. Antennae and palpi amber- 

 yellow. Legs amber-yellow. Head thickly punctate. Thorax 

 with scattered punctures ; two deeply impressed semicircular 

 lines, one on each side, not touching in the middle ; a short 

 deeply impressed longitudinal line down part of the middle of 

 thorax. Elytra with its basal portion with large punctures 

 arranged in lines ; the apical half smooth and shining ; under 

 side deep black. 



Var. a. Tips of femora purplish blue. 

 h. Legs wholly yellow. 



Length 4i lines to 6^ lines. 



Hab. Van Diemen's Land. Rev. T. Ewing ; R. Butler, Esq. 



Clerus sericans Westw. 



Somewhat narrow, closely covered with very delicate punctures. 

 Head and prothorax aeneous, with bristle like golden hairs. 

 Autennae black, at the base fulvo-piceous ; the last three joints 

 gradually thickened. Elytra of a livid ferruginous, covered 

 with black setae ; a pinkish white much-angled band on the 

 middle (margined in front with black) ; two subapical spots of 

 a pinkish white. Mouth with the palpi of a tawny yellow. 

 Body beneath of a brassy black. Legs black. Belly of a pitchy 

 red. Tarsi pitchy. 



Length 3| lines. 



Hab. Mexico. 



Clerus holosericeus, n. a. 



Depressed. Elytra somewhat widened behind. Head, thorax, 

 above and below, and legs, black, and more or less covered with 

 black hairs and greyish silky pubescence. Elytra with the basal 

 half of a reddish fawn ; that colour on the side and suture ex- 

 tending beyond the middle; a large round black spot at the 



