and Species of Longicorn Coleoptera. 33 



Rather depressed, with a greyish-yellow pile, spotted and 

 striped with brown; front and cheeks with vertical, prothorax 

 with transverse lines ; the elytra with three raised lines, the two 

 inner terminating in the sutural and outer spine respectively, the 

 other confined to the basal half, not crested, but the base project- 

 ing forward between the shoulder and scutellum, with two bands, 

 one before, the other behind the middle, and numerous small spots, 

 those near the base having a shallow puncture in the centre ; body 

 beneath pitchy, pubescent on the sides ; antennae and legs dark 

 brown, the latter with fulvous hairs ; palpi testaceous ; eyes 

 black. 



Length 8 lines. 



Zygocera plumifera. 



Z. picea, grisescente pubescens, fusco-maculata ; prothorace 

 trituberculato ; elytris basi cristatis plumiferis ; plaga laterali 

 pone medium raaculisque fuscis. 



Australia (Sydney). 



Pitchy, with a greyish pubescence, varied with brown spots and 

 lines ; head with vertical stripes on the cheeks and a broad patch 

 on the vertex, which is divided by an impressed line; prothorax 

 with three tubercles nearly connected together, two transverse 

 lines and a few spots anteriorly ; elytra gibbous at the base, 

 crested, the crest crowned with soft thick-set hairs, a lateral 

 patch behind the middle and several spots scattered over the sur- 

 face, those on the basal half with a coarse puncture in the centre 

 of each ; beneath pitchy, the sides pubescent, spotted ; antennae 

 pitchy. 



Length 6 lines. 



Zygocera pumila. 



Z. angustior, brunneo-picea, pube grisescente tecta ; prothorace 

 sub-tuberculato ; elytris bicarinatis, basi elevatis, cristatis, 

 punctato-maculatis. 



Australia (Sydney). 



Narrow, reddish pitchy, with a greyish pubescence ; top of 

 the head and prothorax with transverse, brown, more or less inter- 

 rupted lines, the latter with a slight tubercle in the centre, lateral 

 spine very short ; elytra with two raised lines terminating in the 

 apical spines, elevated at the base, with a slightly plumose crest, 

 and having a few dispersed punctures, each in the centre of a 

 chocolate-brown spot, a band of the same colour at the base be- 

 tween the two crests and across the scutellum ; under surface 



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