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It is still with considerable doubt that I have referred the Tas- 

 manian Zoedia here figured to the Clytus v-album Boisd. The figure 

 in the «Astrolabe» is so very bad, that it is hardly possible to say 

 what it is, and unfortunately Boisduval's description too is not of 

 sufficient aid. However, I think the authors of the Munich Catalogue 

 cori'ectly referred Clytus v-alhuni to the genus Zoedia, and then my 

 Zoedia agrees with it in coloration and habitat , moreovei' some ex- 

 pressions of Boisduvars description strengthen me in regarding my 

 specimen as really belonging to it. The most striking charactei' of 

 this species are the four small pointed tubercles on the disk of 

 the thorax , Z. divisa Pasc, and Z. triangularis Pasc, having only 

 two veiy small tubercles in front. This particularity I consider 

 fairly in accordance with Boisduval's expression «corselet petit, 

 garni de petits tubercules pointus». 



Zoedia elegans Waterh. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. of Lond. 1878, p. 236. 



I do not consider this species specifically distinct from Z. divìsa 

 Pasc. The small differences , which might have been observed when 

 comparing a single specimen of each , lose their value when having 

 a good series for examination. A few years ago, I compared at the 

 British Museum my series of ^fei-ya with Waterhouse's type-sjjecimen 

 of elegans and then Mr. Waterhouse himself was convinced of the 

 exactness of this synonymical remark. 



Z. divisa Pasc, seems to l)e rather connnon , whilst all the other 

 species of the genus are exceedingly scarce in collections. 



Zoedia longipes v. d. Poll, n. sp. 



(PI. 13, fig. 4). 



Dull rufous; head slightly darker, pale reddish-brown ; antennae 

 with the tip of the scape and the greater apical part of the last 

 joint blackish ; thorax witli the lateral tubercles black ; the smaller 

 apical half of the elytra black and covered, with the exception of 

 a broad transverse stripe , with a short silvery pile , the basal half 



