IS Mr. H. W. Bates o?i the Longicom 



well-known Australian insect. White gives it on the authority 

 of Dr. Sinclair. 



Liogramma, nov. gen. 

 Ad. gen. Phacodes et Elaphidion affine, sed aritenuis articulo tertio 

 apice intus acute producto, articulis reliquis simplicibus. Corpus 

 lineare, paulo convexum, nitidum sed passim pubescens. Caput 

 retractum ; oculi prominuli, grossissirne granulati ; frons brevis ; 

 palpi breves, articulis terminalibus triangularibus. Antennae <$ 

 corpore paulo longiores, pilosse, haud sulcatae, scapo curvato-clavato, 

 articulo tertio apice intus acute dentato, quarto quam tertio paulo 

 breviore, quinto usque undecimum aequalibus, precedente longiori- 

 bus, gradatim attenuatis. Thorax oblongus, postice vix angustatus, 

 lateribus paulo rotundatis inermibus, supra rugosis, lineis elevatis 

 politis. Elytra thorace vix latiora ajnce late rotundata. Pedes 

 modice elongati, femora gradatim clavata ; tibiae haud sulcatae ; 

 tarsi breves, articulo primo modice elongate Acetabula antica 

 postice aperta, extus vix angulata, prosterno angusto, marginato ; 

 intermedia extus clausa. 



This new genus is founded on Callidium zealandicum 

 (Blanch.), an insect having no near affinity to Callidium, but 

 which Lacortlaire was inclined to place in Callidiopsis, and 

 White included in CEmona. It differs in essential characters 

 from all those groups, and seems most nearly allied to the 

 American genus Elaphidion. 



Liogramma zealandicum. 



Callidium zealandicum, Blanch. Vovage au Pole Sud, Zool. iv. p. 272, pi. 



17. f. 4. 

 Callidiopsis zealandicus, Lacordaire, Gen. ix. p. 357, note. 



Rusty brown in colour, with paler pubescence ; the smooth 

 streaks on the thorax consist of a dorsal line and two dis- 

 coidal ones on each side, the inner of which is connected with 

 a rounded tubercle, and the outer short and sometimes obsolete ; 

 the elytra are rugose-punctate throughout. 



Sent in some numbers by Mr. Wakefield, with a note 

 attached — " Under bark, Akaroa." 



Didymocantha sublineata. 



Eburida sublineata, White, Voy. Ereb. & Terr. p. 19. 

 Didymocantha sublineata, Lacord. Gen. ix. p. 344. 



Auckland and Port Nicholson. 



Didymocantha picta, n. sp. 



D. modice convexa, breviter erecte pubescens, castaneo-fusca ; elytris 

 nitidis, apice conjunctim rotundatis, rugoso-punctatis, utrinque 



