12{) Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-hiown 



both from the figure and the description, I tliink that it is also alUed 

 to Erichson's Latometus*. 



Elascus crassicorms. (PL YII. fig. 7.) 



E. subdepressus, fuscescenti-varius ; autemiis medio abrupte incrassatis. 



Ilab. Australia (Melbourne). 



liatlier broadly depressed, covered with coarse, curly, dusky-brown 

 hairs varied with paler or greyish markings ; head and prothorax grey- 

 ish-brown, the latter with fom- tubercles on its disc and the projecting 

 anterior portion strongly bilobed ; elytra bordered with hooked hau'S, 

 with three waved costse on each, terminating posteriorly in as many 

 tubercles, between which and the apex is another and larger one, a 

 small oblique stripe behind the shoidder and a broad band near the 

 apex ; antennie greyish-bro^^^l, the terminal half darker, with the third 

 joint much thicker than the two preceding, the fom'th and succeeding 

 joints gradually diminishing in thicliness ; legs dark brown ; body be- 

 neath pitchy, with yellowish-brown scaly hairs. Length 3 lines. 



I have only seen two specimens, both of which were taken by- 

 Mr. Bakewell, at Melbourne, under the bark of trees composing a 

 stock-yard fence. 



EJascns hmatus. (PI. VII. fig. 8.) 



-E. subangustatus, fuscus, nigro-varius ; el^-tris albo-fasciatis. 



Hab. Australia (INIelbourne). 



Rather narrow, slightly depressed, covered ^vith coarse scaly hairs, 

 which are yellowish-grey on the head, but considerably darker on the 

 prothorax and elytra, or nearly black, the latter having three whitish 

 bands (the two anterior crescent-shaped, but sometimes nearly coales- 

 cing, the posterior straight) ; prothorax with four tubercles on its disc, 

 the anterior projecting- portion rather broadly bilobed, each lobe form- 

 ing (so to speak) an additional tubercle ; el_yi;ra coarsely seriato-punc- 

 tate, each with three costte, the inner nearly obsolete except at the 

 base ; antennte not abruptly thickened in the middle, yellowish varied 

 with dark brown, especially the three terminal joints; legs ferruginous, 

 more or less marked with dark brown ; body beneath covered with 

 gi-eyish-yellow scaly hairs. Length 2^ lines. 



The post-prothoracic lobe is less developed in this species than in 

 the former, or, in other words, it is broader and less abruptly de- 

 fined. The two specimens (also captured by Mr. Bakewell) now 

 before me diff'er considerably in depth of colour and amount of white 

 on the elytra ; but in this, as in other instances, the pattern ls the 

 same. 



* Wiegmami's Archiv, 1842, p. 213. pi. f). fig. 3. 



