46 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-known 
body in the male (probably shorter in the female), the basal joint 
scarcely thickened, the second short, the third to the seventh of nearly 
equal length, subcylindrical, not nodose at the ends, and the remainder 
a little shorter and somewhat compressed (except the last, which is 
pointed) ; palpi brownish, the terminal joint of the maxillary securiform, 
of the labial shortly triangular; eyes large, reniform; prothorax rather 
longer than broad, rounded at the sides, truncate and considerably 
contracted in front, finely punctured, two foveze at the base and an 
intermediate depression, posterior angle acute; scutellum triangular ; 
elytra striate-punctate, much wider than the prothorax, ovate-elon- 
gate; body beneath fulvous, pubescent; prosternum narrow, elevated ; 
mesosternum V-shaped; legs short; tibize slightly curved, terminating 
in two short spines; the two penultimate of the anterior and inter- 
mediate and the penultimate only of the posterior tarsi lamellate. 
Length 4 lines. 
Dracatra [ Lagriide |. 
Caput trigonatum, ad angulum posticum productum. Oculi parvi, rotun- 
dati. Labiwm quadratum, membranaceum. Palpi labiales articulo 
ultimo subcylindrico. Prothorax late ovatus, antice constrictus. Tibie 
bicalcaratie. 
These characters (and there are also others) are in complete oppo- 
sition to Lagria, with which genus only—if, perhaps, we except 
Euomma—in the four which have hitherto composed this family, is 
it to be assimilated. In other respects it agrees perfectly with the 
characters of the Lagriide as laid down by M. Lacordaire, except 
that the eyes are entire, and the labium is so thin and transparent 
as to be rather membranous than corneous*. The habit of the 
species described below is more that of a Titena than a Lagria. 
Diacalla comata, (Pl. IL. fig. 6.) 
D. rufo-fusca, subnitida, hirsuta, fortiter et confertim punctata; abdo- 
mine infra subrufescente. 
Hab. Queensland. 
Dark reddish brown, subnitid, closely and very coarsely punctured, 
with short erect greyish and black hairs, mostly arising from the 
punctures, covering the whole upper surface; head inclined, trigonal, 
enlarged behind the eyes, then suddenly contracted into a thick neck ; 
eyes small, round; antennze short, the two basal joints slightly thick- 
ened, the remainder to the tenth gradually diminishing in length but 
increasing in thickness, the eleventh more slender and as long as the 
two preceding together; internal maxillary lobe narrow, longer than 
* Fabricius, however, says ‘“‘labium membranaceum.” (nt. Syst. i. pars ii. 
p. 78.) 
