60 Mr. F. P, Pascoe's Descriptions of Kew Genera 



Dark brown, covered with short cinereous hairs and tliickly 

 sprinkled with small reddish yellow spots ; front of the head and 

 prothorax with large scattered punctures ; elytra sparingly punc- 

 tured and granulated, the shoulders much produced, with two 

 crests, the outer formed by three large granules, the inner larger 

 and more tuberous, the two placed in a large brown curved band 

 passing behind the scutellum, and behind the middle another band 

 or patch, much broader and paler, and extending to the apex ; 

 eyes and mandibles black ; beneath pale brown. 



Length 11 lines, 



Rhylipliora polymita. 



R. nigro-picea, tomento rufo alboque varia ; elytris punctis 

 granulisque atris dispersis. 



Moreton Bay. 



Pitchy black, densely covered with short white hairs variously 

 mingled with red or dark orange ; head with a few rough punc- 

 tures between the eyes ; prothorax short, slightly corrugated and 

 obscurely banded with red ; elytra with small black granulations 

 on the basal half and somewhat impressed spots on the remainder, 

 both invariably placed among the white portion of the colours, 

 and between whicli the red is intricately mingled ; antennae sprinkled 

 with black, the tips of the joints more or less of the same colour ; 

 legs and undersurface clouded with red ; mesosternum quadrate, 

 scarcely emarginate. 



Length 14 lines, 



RhytlpJwra cretata. 



R. nigro-picea, pube subtilissima tecta, lineis plagisque albo- 

 varia ; infra albo-tomentosa. 



Moreton Bay. 



Pitchy black, scarcely pubescent ; head nearly smooth, a white 

 patch on the cheek ; prothorax corrugated, with two principal lines 

 of white; elytra irregularly punctured, with a few granulations at 

 the base, and remotely blotched and spotted with white — one 

 blotch at the side below the shoulder, behind the middle four or 

 five patches forming a sort of oblique band, and towards the apex 

 two or three more but less distinct, at the base and along the 

 suture several spots — all formed by densely set, short, white hairs; 

 antennae annulated with white ; femora and beneath densely to- 

 mentose, white, sprinkled with black ; tibiae with a reddish tinge ; 

 mesosternum deeply emarginate posteriorly. 



Length 13 lines. 



