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tecto ; elytris ovato-trig-onis, prothorace angustioribus, 

 striato-punctatisj intei'stitiis tertio et quinto tuberculato- 

 elevatis, ochraceo-variegatis^ baud lanuginosis ; corpora 

 infra aterrimo, maculis dense ocbraceo-squamosis notato ; 

 cornibus pectoralibus brevibus, porrectis : pedibus elon- 

 gatis, annulatis ; femoribus posticis sublinearibus^ infra 

 spinis tribus armatis^ tibiis posticis intus valde bisinuatis, 

 apicem versus late albo-annulatis ; tarsis nigTis, anticia 

 fimbriatis, posticis articulo basali intus albo-squamoso. 

 ( ? ) differt rostro pedibusque brevioribus^ tarsis anticis 

 baud fimbriatis^ pectore mutico. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Hah. — Queensland. 



This is the first species described from Australia of 

 this genus, although it abounds in the Malayan Islands, 

 and in India. Comparing this species with numerous 

 examples of many others now before me, it differs in one 

 or more of the following characters : the length of the 

 antennae, the scape, however, still falling far short of the 

 eyes, the neai-ly equal length of the two basal joints of 

 the funicle, the three spines on the posterior femoi^a (the 

 first much the longest) , and the strongly bisinuate inner 

 edge of the tibiee of the same pair. M. Lacordaire's 

 genus Macrobamon, closely allied to Mecopus, was pre- 

 viously described by me in the Journal of Entomology 

 (vol. ii, p. 427) under the name of Odoacis. 



ALCIDIN^. 



Alcides, Schonherr, Cure. Disp. p. 270. 



Alcides heilipoides. 



A. oblongus, modice convexus, niger, opacus, squamis 

 fuliginosis griseisque variis vestitus ; rostro breviusculo, 

 vix robusto, recto, cum capite crebre punctate ; antennis 

 ferrugineis, scapo brevi, articulo basali obconico, brevius- 

 culo, quatuor ultimis transversis, clava breviter ovata ; 

 prothorace transverso, utrinque valde rotundato, antice 

 tubulate, basi vix bisinuato, supra confertim subtiliter 

 granulate ; scutello rotundato, elevate, dense griseo- 

 squamoso ; elytris basi prothorace multo latioribus, hu- 

 meris prominentibus, striato-punctatis, punctis approxi- 

 matis, impressis, interstitiis angustis, tertio quintoque 

 paulo elevatis; apicibus rotundatis, pone medium macula 

 irregulari albida notatis ; corpore infra nigro, sparse 



