202 Mr. W. W. Saunders’s Descriptions 
the body, dull rufous brown, with the upper surface of the first 
joint black. Thorax with the lateral margins strongly dentate, 
covered with small pustules, intermixed with short shining yellow 
hairs; dull orange, with a broad longitudinal, somewhat lozenge- 
shaped, black brown patch along the whole length on the vertex. 
Scutellum dark chesnut brown, elevated behind, shining, somewhat 
quadrate, and strongly keeled. Elytra deeply and rugosely punc= 
tured, dull orange, with an obscure broad dark brown transverse 
fascia above the centre, and some obscure dark brown markings 
a little before the apex. Under side of body dull ochre yellow, 
clothed with very short whitish hairs. Legs dull chesnut brown, 
clothed with hairs of the same character. 
Length 45 inch. 
Habitat New South Wales. 
In the Cabinet of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
The above description is drawn from a male insect. The female 
differs in having considerably shorter and more robust antenne ; 
is larger in size; has the broad transverse fascia of the elytra 
more clearly defined, and has the under side of the body darker. 
Length 33, inch. 
Habitat New South Wales. 
In the Cabinet of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
Genus Opontoperes, Chevrolat, MSS. 
Head immersed in the thorax up to the eyes. Antenne wide 
apart, inserted just before the sinus of the eyes, subclavate, not 
quite so long as the body, 11-jointed: first joint pyriform; second 
small, globose; third, fourth and fifth long and slender, the fifth 
somewhat the longest; the remaining joints gradually decreasing 
in length but becoming more robust, and forming a kind of elon- 
gate clava, with the joints projecting slightly internally. Thorax 
nearly as broad as the elytra, transverse, rounded at the sides, 
with the lateral margins strongly and regularly dentate, convex 
above. Scutellum quadrate, elevated posteriorly. LHlytra half 
as broad again as long, rounded at the apex. Legs moderate. 
Tarsi robust, the joints nearly equal in length. 
Odontoderes Australis, Boisduval. (Plate XV. fig. 2, and details.) 
Head black, rugosely punctured, with two small yellow marks 
on the face, situated close to the upper part of each eye. Antenne 
and eyes black. Thorax black, covered with small regular 
tubercles, Scutellum smooth, quadrate, shining black. Elytra 
