146 Mr. W. W. Saunders’s Descriptions 
shining. Elytra shining, irregularly striate and punctured, espe- 
cially near the shoulders, which are slightly rugose. Abdomen 
somewhat longer than the elytra; covered underneath with silvery 
adpressed pubescence. 
Length 518, inch. 
Native of Van Diemen’s Land. 
In the Collection of J. O. Westwood, Esq. 
Section II. 
(Body cylindrical.) 
Sp. 8. Ldiocephala Bynoet, W. W.S. 
Head punctured, rufous brown, with a band across the vertex, 
near the margin of the thorax, and sinus of the eyes, black. Eyes 
black. Antenne black. Thorax bright rufous brown, gibbous in 
front, shining and deeply punctured. Scutellum black, shining, 
rounded posteriorly. Elytra a little broader than the thorax, 
deeply punctured, with slight irregular transverse waves; rufous 
brown, with the base irregularly margined with black, the suture 
narrowly margined with the same colour, and an irregular broad 
transverse black band a little above the apex. Under side of body 
rufous brown, the mesosternum black, covered with short adpressed 
silvery pubescence. Legs rufous brown, with the apices of the 
tibize and tarsi black. 
Length =29, inch. 
Collected in New Holland by Mr. Bynoe. 
In the Collection of the British Museum. 
This is a robust and well marked species. The description is 
drawn apparently from a male insect. 
Sp. 9. Idiocephala rugosa, Hope. Olivier ? 
Head black, subrugose, and marked with faint longitudinal striz. 
Eyes and antenne black. Thorax black, shining, very gibbous in 
front, rugose and deeply punctured. Scutellum black, subtrigo- 
nate, smooth, very elevated behind. Elytra black, shining, with 
the apices rufous brown, rugose and deeply punctured, the part 
adjoining the scutellum elevated. Under side of body black, with 
the sides of the metasternal region densely covered with golden 
pubescence ; also a small patch of the same coloured pubescence 
on each side the thorax underneath, and lateral patches on each 
segment of the abdomen, gradually decreasing in size with the 
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