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thorax is more acute and the two small tubercles on the 

 disk are more distinct. The spot on the disk of the 

 elytra is pale ferruginous, not triangular; it is bordered 

 above by a fine Avhite line, Avhich, commencing on the 

 margin, approaches the suture slightly obliquely until it 

 nearly reaches it, when it turns somewhat suddenly 

 upwards and joins the suture some little way below the 

 scutellum ; the region around the spot is velvety black as 

 in the other species. This spot on the elytra agrees more 

 with the figure of Z. divisa, Pascoe (Joum. Ent. I. 

 p. 362, t. xvii. f. 1 ), but I think that the Tasmanian 

 example cannot be referred to that species, not only on 

 account of the difference of coloration but the phrases 

 "head canaliculate between the antennte" and "prothorax 

 swelling out at the middle into an obtuse knob " do not 

 well accord Avith it.* 



Lastly, there is the doubtful " Clytus v-album,^'' Boisd. 

 (Voy. d. I'Astr. p. 485, t. ix. f. 23), Avhich appears (and 

 I think correctly) as a Zoedia in the Munich Catalogue. 

 The figure of this insect is so very bad that it is impos- 

 sible to say what it is, and, consequently, it might be 

 intended for a colour variety of the Tasmanian specimen 

 in question, and the description does not help one at 

 all ; for example, the femora are said to be fuscous 

 with the base paler, and the first joint of the antennse is 

 " tout-a-fait de la couleur des cuisses;" " corselet petit, 

 garni de petits tubercules pointus." The thorax having 

 only the lateral tubercle and tAvo A^ery small ones on the 

 disk in the Zoedia known to me. 



* Since the above was in print, Mr. Pascoe has kindly brought me his 

 type specimen for comparison, and it proves to be distinct from elegans, 

 in which the lateral tubercle of the thorax is distinctly more acute than in 

 divisa, &c. 



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