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apex black ; abdomen with the central sulcation only promi- 

 nent en basal area. 



Long. 18 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 8^ mm. 



Hab. S. Centr. Australia ; 100 miles E. of Lake Eyre (H. J. 

 Hillier, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to E. vittiventris, Stal, from which it differs by its 

 much more slender form and the minute second joint of the 

 antennas. 



Eumecopus confusus, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, thickly mottled and punctured with black; 

 head black, with three basal longitudinal fascia?, the two 

 outermost of which are narrowly continued towards apex, a 

 fascia margining each side of central lobe, basal halves of 

 lateral margins, basal margins of eyes, and a spot behind 

 them ochraceous, most of the punctures arranged longitu- 

 dinally ; antennae with the first and second joints castaneous, 

 third, fourth, and fifth black, with their bases ochraceous, 

 extreme apices of second and third ochraceous, second joint 

 distinctly longer than third, fourth longest ; pronotum 

 coarsely punctate and subrugulose, lateral margins mode- 

 rately concavely sinuate, their apices very obscurely crenulate, 

 the posterior angles moderately subspinously produced ; 

 scutellum blackly punctate, more confluently so on basal and 

 apical areas, three basal spots and the apex ochraceous, levi- 

 gate ; corium irregularly blackly punctate, the punctures in 

 somewhat longitudinal series on inner and outer margins of 

 costal area and a little confluently on posterior disk ; mem- 

 brane bronzy-brown ; connexivum black, thickly puuetate, 

 with its lateral margin ochraceous ; head beneath ochraceous, 

 with two longitudinal black lines on each side ; sternum 

 ochraceous, mottled and punctured with black; abdomen 

 beneath black, the segmental margins and a central broken 

 macular fascia ochraceous, lateral margins uniformly narrowly 

 greenish ochraceous ; legs blackish mottled with ochraceous, 

 posterior tibiae with a broad ochraceous annulation. 



Long. 24 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 13 mm. 



Hab. Queensland (F. P. Dodd, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to E. conspersus, Walk., from which it differs by 

 the second joint of the antennae being longer than the 

 third, not half the length of the third as in Walker's species ; 

 also by the pale marginal border, not marginal spots, to 

 the abdomen beneath ; antenniferous tubercles outwardly 

 obtusely spinous in conspersus^ not so in confusus. 



