48 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some neiv or little-hiown 



rows ; antennte, palpi, month, and throat pale yellow ; legs pitchy, 

 stout, femora at the base and apex (or legs altogether) testaceous ; 

 body beneath green, more or less covered with grejish hairs. Length 

 3 lines. 



Aulicus instahilis, Newm., the type of the genus, is such a variable 

 insect, that it is quite possible this may be but one of its protean 

 forms ; nevertheless, besides its smaller size, it is more convex, the 

 prothorax narrower and less depressed, its greatest breadth being 

 behind the middle, and the posterior and anterior margins being 

 nearly equal; its head is also shorter, the eyes proportionally larger, 

 and the antennae longer ; moreover I have never seen any specimen 

 of A. instahilis approaching this in colour. 



Allelidea [Cleridse]. 



Waterhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. vol. ii. p. 193. 



Allelidea hrevijpennis. (PL II. fig. 9.) 



A, elongata, atra, nitida ; elytris brevibus, fasciis duabus antennisque 

 (apice excepta) albidis ; tibiis flavis. 



Hah. Australia (Melbom-ne). 



Very slender, elongate, deep glossy black ; the prothorax moderately, 

 the eljiira strongly punctured, the latter very short, not exceeding half 

 the length of the abdomen, the base and band at the apex a pale yel- 

 lowish-white ; antennae white, except the three apical joints; tarsi 

 yellow. Length 2 lines. British Museum. 



Lemidia [Cleridae]. 



Spinola, Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 75. 



Lemidia carissima. 

 L. fulvo-testacea, nitida ; elytris Isete-viridibus, humeris, fascia media 



apiceque aurantiacis ; tibiis tarsisque posticis nigris. 

 Hub. Australia (Melbourne). 



Shining reddish-testaceous ; elytra bright green, shoulders, band 

 across the middle, and apex rich orange-red ; eyes, tibiae and tarsi 

 black ; throat, meso- and metathorax, and patch on the abdomen brassj-- 

 black. Length 3 lines. 



Lemidia insolata. 

 L. pallida fulva, breviter setosa ; prothorace nitido ; elytris striato-pune- 



tatis, dense tomentosis ; oculis apiceque mandibularum nigris. 

 Hah. Macassar. 



Pale tawny, covered with short, erect, setose hairs ; head and pro- 

 thorax glossy ; scutellum and el3'tra with a dense opake pale tomentum, 

 the latter regularly and finely punctured ; eyes and tips of the man- 

 dibles black. Length 5 lines. 



