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44. Trichetra Isabella. Fore wings white, with three fasciae and 

 the apex black : between the second and third fascia are two subocel- 

 lated spots, and there are eight spots in the black margin : hind wings 

 black, with the base and apical margin ochraceous. This is congene- 

 ric with Arcturus Sparshallii of Curtis's ' British Entomology.' Mr. 

 White, alluding to this insect's being described as British, says " there 

 seem doubts of the correctness of this." — ii. 479. 



45. Agagles amicus. 



" A new species, at first sight resembling Leptosoma annulatum, Boisduval (Voy. 

 de I'Astrolabe, i. p. 197, pi. 5, fig. 9), but differs ; the thorax having four longitndinal 

 narrow, light-coloured lines, the band across the upper wings is more continuous, and 

 the circular spot on lower, larger. It is about the same size, and has the body ringed 

 with black and yellow ; the legs are brown ; the femora on under side fringed with 

 whitish hairs, simply pectinated ; many of the pectinations of the antennae end in a 

 bristle-like hair; palpi somewhat prominent; last joint pointed.'' — ii. 482. 



Mr. White would have done well in describing insects so entirely 

 new to Entomology as these appear to be, to have given their exact 

 dimensions : it would also be useful to indicate, in every instance, the 

 family to w^hich an insect belongs. Several of the insects are figured 

 in wood, a mode of illustration most acceptable to the enquirer. 



Edward Newman. 



Art. XC. — List of Longicorns collected at Port Philip, South Aus- 

 tralia, by Edmund Higgins, Esq. By Edward Newman. 



Mr. Higgins having most obligingly placed in my hands his fine 

 collection of Australian insects, together with his MS. notes, I lose 

 no time in laying before the readers of ' The Entomologist ' a list of 

 the Longicorns. 



Family. — Prionid.e. 

 1. (CnemoplitesJ edulis. Genus novum? Protibiis excurvatis extus 

 spinosis. Cnem. edulis. Piceus, punctus, rugosus : prothorax 

 dorso gibbus, inaeqiialis, medio cruciatim depressus, spatiis gla- 

 bris nullis : maris abdomen dense lanosum, aureum : elytra 

 apice rotundata, nullo modo armata. (Corp. long. 1'5 — 2 unc. 

 lat. -6 — -7 unc). 

 Found under the bark of Eucalyptus in February, 1840. The lar- 

 vae of all the native Prionidae are eagerly sought by the aborigines of 

 Australia as an article of food. The two more common forms of Aus- 

 tralian Prionidae, — the first distinguished by the external side of the 

 protibiae being toothed or spined, and the second by the same part 

 being perfectly smooth, — have never, I believe, been noticed as gene- 



