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oi'nMted with a large oval black spot, common to both the elyti-a , 

 originating at the base and extending down the suture for almost 

 a third of the total length, this spot, as well as the black apical 

 portion, bordered with a narrow stripe of silvery shining white 

 hairs; the tips of the thighs, the upper part of the anterior and 

 intermediate tibiae and by far the greater part of the hinder shins 

 black; abdomen black with a dense greyisli pile, the sides of the 

 breast with an oblique chalky white stripe of long soft hairs. 



Head thick, regulai'ly rounded posterioi'ly , moderately hollowed 

 between the antennae, wilh an impressed median line; antennae 

 long, scape slender, thickened at the tip. Prothorax )nuch longer 

 than the head and considerably narrower at the tip, the disk 

 strongly convex , much depressed at the base , the sides with a 

 large obtuse tubercle somewhat below the middle. Scutellum elongate, 

 rounded at tlie tip. Elytra twice as broad as the thorax at the 

 base, slightly incurved at the sides, conjointly rounded at the apex. 

 Thighs robust; hinder legs very slender, the tibiae almost straight , 

 covered with a few long soft black hairs. The entire insect is 

 very closely and exceedingly finely punctured, and clothed with a 

 scarcely perceptible silvery pubescence. 



Length 8 mm. — Habitat : New South Wales. 



The pattern of the elytra and tlie long thorax without any 

 impressions or nodosities on its disk, render this fine species very 

 distinct from all its congeners. 



Zoëdia gracilipes v. d. Poll, n. sp. 

 (PL 13, fig. 5). 

 Dull ; head and thorax brown , the latter blackish on the disk ; 

 antennae rufous with the scape blackish. The basal half of the 

 elytra pale rufous brown , the apical half smoky black (according 

 to the light more or less velvety shining); the black portion extends 

 in an oblique line from the outer margin towards the suture, the 

 line of demarcation between the two portions indicated by a stripe 

 of silvery hairs , extending along the suture upwards to the scutellum 

 and being on its turn bordered above by a diffuse stripe of black hairs. 



