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Srconp SUBDIVISION. 
(Elytra without elevated ridges.) 
Sp. 6. Prionopleura monochroa, Bois. 
Head dull orange, with a transverse line across the vertex, and 
a line down the face, reaching from the vertex to between the 
eyes, black. Antenne as long as the body in the ¢, dull ochre, 
with the upper parts of the first and last joints black. Thorax 
and elytra uniform dull ochre, deeply and irregularly punctured, 
so as to give a rugose appearance to the surface. Scutellum small, 
black, quadrate, shining. Under side of body dull ochre, covered 
with short adpressed whitish hairs. Legs dull ochre, the tibie 
having a dark line along the upper surface. ‘Tarsi dusky. 
Length 4°, inch. 
In the Cabinet of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
Habitat Australia. 
Sp. 7. Prionopleura cognata, Hope, MSS. 
Head yellowish amber brown, covered with small paler tubercles. 
Labrum yellow. Eyes black. Antenne two-thirds of the length 
of the body, yellowish brown, with the first joint black. Thorax 
with the lateral margins slightly dentate, amber brown, covered 
with somewhat large yellow tubercles, and having an obscure 
longitudinal narrow black line along the vertex. Scutellum qua- 
drate, elevated posteriorly, ochre yellow. Elytra dull ochre yellow, 
deeply and irregularly punctured, with an ill-defined black band 
extending nearly across, a litttle below the centre, and extending 
upwards to near the scutellum, leaving the shoulders and lateral 
‘margins free. Under side of body yellow brown, covered with 
short adpressed pale yellow hairs. Legs dull reddish brown, with 
the femora beneath, and apices of the tibize externally black brown. 
Tarsi reddish brown, robust. 
Length -3°, inch; width 18. 
Habitat Van Diemen’s Land, 
In my own Cabinet and that of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
Sp. 8. Prionopleura rugicollis, Gray. 
Head pale dull orange, sparingly clothed with yellow hairs, with 
a black streak down the face, commencing on the vertex, and an 
angular black line reaching across from the bases of the antenne, 
and forming with the former a Y inverted. Antenne as long as 
