340 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-Tcnown 



males is confined to S. pedicornis, Fab., and S. metutus, Pasc, and 

 is absent in S. nodosus, Newm. (the type of Sympliyletes) ; and any 

 reliance on it as a generic character would only tend to separate 

 species which ought to be kept together. 



Symphyletes variolosus. 



S. subangustatus, fusco-olivaceus, leviter pubescens ; elytris apice sinuatis, 

 bidentatis, fulvo maculatis. 



Hai. Australia (Melbourne, Moreton Bay, &c.). 



Rather naiTow, dark olive, shuiiiig, with a veiy thin, scarcely notice- 

 able pubescence, in-egidarly and coarsely pimctured ; head rather small, 

 a deeply impressed line between the eyes; antennte longer than the 

 body, a little shorter in the female, brown, ciliated beneath ; prothorax 

 nearly as broad as long, the anterior margin nan'ower than the posterior, 

 the sides scarcely rounded, the disk slightly sulcated with three indi- 

 stinct, interrupted, yellowish bands ; scutellum transverse, rounded 

 posteriorly ; elytra broadest at the shoulder, gradually tapering to the 

 apex, which is sinuated with a short process on each side, almost free 

 fi'om pubescence, except the small yello^vish tufts which dot their 

 surface; legs dark olive; body beneath with the pile pale greyish, 

 slightly clouded with buff. Length 6 lines. 



A rather common species in collections, and having apparently a 

 wide geographic range. Its nearest affinity is with S. alho-cinctus, 

 Don. ; but, in addition to other characters, it wants the white band at 

 the sides of the elytra. The females of Symphyletes appear to have 

 a longitudinal impressed line in the middle of the last abdominal 

 segment. 



ABRTisrA [Lamiidse]. 



Newman, Entomologist, p. 289. 



Ahryna pardalis. 



A. robusta, grisescente pilosa, maculis plagisque nigi-is omata ; seutello 

 tarsisque nigris. 



Hab. Ceram. 



Pitchy-black, with a short, close, pale-gi'eyish pile, and spots and 

 patches of black ; head mostly black, the cheeks and vertex spotted with 

 greyish, the epistome clothed with rusty hairs ; prothorax subti-ansverse, 

 with four obtuse tubercles on the disk (1.2.1), the two lateral teeth 

 distinct ; scutellum black ; elytra rather short, broadest at the shoulders, 

 slightly depressed behind the scutellmn, a large black patch externally, 

 a little distance from the shoulder, and rather behind the middle another ; 

 antennae scarcely longer than the body, all the joints from the third to 

 the seventh inclusive ashy-white at the base, the basal joint nearly 

 black ; legs with a greyish pile tinged with black, the tarsi entirely 

 black ; eyes and mandibles dark brown ; body beneath with a sparse 

 dull-ashy pile mottled with black. Length 9 lines. 



