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the joints becoming darker towards the tip; each elytron ornated 

 with two large flavous spots , one before the middle and the other 

 somewhat larger below the middle, both touching neither the 

 outer raaigin nor the suture , the apical spot extending however 

 very close to the outer margin ; around these spots the brown colour 

 is somewhat dai'ker; underneath uniformly clothed with a silvery 

 pile; legs rufous, the thighs gradually darker towards te knees. 



Head long and rather narrow in front, ver'tex large, not gra- 

 dually rounded but obliquely narrowed behind and then cut off in a 

 straight line; shallowiy hollowed between the antennae, with a faintly 

 impressed median line in front, all over densely rugosely punctured. 

 Antennae almost reaching the tip of the elytra , scape long , strongly 

 thickened at the tip. Prothorax about as long as the head, narrower 

 in front than at the base, the sides swelling out into an obtuse 

 knob before the middle, the disk moderately convex, with a faint 

 median impression; closely confluently punctured but rather more 

 finely than the head. Scutellum broad , strongly rounded. Elytra 

 not quite twice as broad as the thorax at the base, slightly emargi- 

 nate laterally below the shoulders , separately rounded at the apex ; 

 each elytron is provided with four I'idges, which are all confluent 

 before reacliing the tip , the innermost being shortest ; the inter- 

 stices are very finely and thickly punctured, on tlie flavous spots 

 the punctures are much larger and more distant. Thighs slender 

 at the base, somewhat suddenly thickened near the tip. The 

 upper surface , the antennae and the legs are clothed with extremely 

 minute silvery hairs, only visible with the aid of a strong lense. 



Length l'i mm. — Habitat: Queensland. 



The coloration of this inject is very unlike that of Aphneope 

 sei'icafa Pasc, and there are also several differences in the sti'ucture 

 of the head, thorax and thighs, which perhaps will render a generic 

 separation desirable ; for the pr-jsent , however , I prefer to let it in 

 Ajihneope. 



Zoëdia V-albiim Boisd. 

 (PI. 13, fig. 3). 



Clytus v-album Boisd. Fo//. Astrol. II (1835), p. 485 , t. 9 , f. 23. 



