96 LORD HOWE ISLAND. 



Phacodes obscueus, Fahr. 

 Pliacodes obscurus, Fabricius, Mant. Ins., I, p. 151 ; Blauchard, Yoy. Pole 

 Sucl., IV, p. 27], pi. 17, fis. 13. 

 A single example of this widely-distributed Australian species. 



*Cebesium simplex, G^U. 

 Stenocliorus simplex, Gyllenbal, Schon. Syst. Ins., App. I, p. 178. 



A widely-distributed and variable species, which ranges from the Philip- 

 pines to New Zealand. 



Ceeesium, sp. 

 A species allied to C. pachymerum, Pasc, but with the prothorax broader 

 and the legs darker in colour. 



Hemesthoceea elavilinea, Newm. 

 Hemestliocera favilinea, Newman, ZooL, 1850, p. Ill ; White, Cat. Long. 

 Brit. Mus., Till, pi. 6, fig. 2. 

 This somewhat local Australian species appears to be common in the 

 island. 



Clttus austealis. Lap. Sf Gory. 

 Clytus aiisfrcd/s, Laporte & Gory, Mon., p. 99, pi. 19, fig. 118. 



AV'idely distributed, ranging from Australia and New Guinea to the 

 Philippine Islands. 



*Blax Wollastoki, White. 

 Deucalion Wollastoni, "White, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., XXIY, p. 406, pi. 40, 

 fig. 6 (lS56)—Blax WoUastoni, Thomson, Class. Long., p. 23 (1860). 

 This species appears to be tolerably common. t 



Xtloteles segrex, sp. nov. 



Elongate, sub-cylindrical, somewhat narrowed both in front and behind, 

 piceous, tinged with bronze-green, rather thickly clothed with gray pubes- 

 cence ; elytra striate, rather strongly punctured at the base, each with a 

 patch of dusky white pubescence near the apex. 



Head transverse, finely pubescent, with a distinct median line. Antenna? 

 pitchy, finely pubescent, the bases of joints 3 — 11 inclining to reddish 

 testaceous. Prothorax about as broad as long, very finely and not very 

 closely punctui-ed, with two moderately-impressed transverse lines, one near 

 the anterior margin, the other near the base. Scutellum closely covered 

 with fine yellowish-white pubescence. Elytra somewhat narrowed behind, 

 moderately distinctly striate, with longitudinal series of punctures near the 

 base, which are effaced posteriorly, closely covered with fine gray pubes- 

 cence ; the sides sub-parallel, gradually rounded to the apex, which is not 

 produced. Legs finely pubescent ; the tibiae and tarsi inclining to reddish 

 testaceous. Length 6 — 9 mm. 



Allied to XyloteJes griseus, Eabr., and X. Pattesoni, Oil. ; compared with 

 the latter it is decidedly more pubescent, and has the elytra less narrowed 

 posteriorly. 



SOMATIDIA PFLCHELLA, Sp. UOV. 



Plate VI, f . 4. 



Elongate, very convex, narrowed both in front and behind, bronze green, 



shining, tinged with purple, very sparingly clothed with erect testaceous 



setse ; elytra strongly punctured near the base ; antenna), tibia?, and tarsi 



pale reddish testaceous ; femora fuscous. 



1 1 take it that BlapsiJon irrorattim, a New Caledonian form, is erroneously recorded 

 from Lord Howe Island in the explanation of Plate V, in the Journal of Entomology (vol. i, 

 p. 132), as no reference is male to the locality in Mr. Pascoe's text. 



