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3° 4° que inter se sat «qualibus ad apicem subclavatis, 5°-—8° 
subcylindricis (5° 4° longitudine zequali, 6°—8° paullo brevior- 
ibus), 9° quam latiori vix longiori, 10° sat fortiter transverso, 
11° quam 9% vix longiori; capite crebre subtilissime punc- 
tulato, puncturis paullo majoribus sparsissime intermixtis ; 
prothorace quam longiori vix latiori, subtilissime sat crebre 
punctulato (in disco puncturis minus subtilibus sparsissime 
intermixtis), ad latera sat grosse ruguloso, sulco longitudinali 
mediano (antice abbreviato) impresso, ad basin quam ad 
marginem anticum paullo angustiori, ante medium subcon- 
stricto, pone medium utrinque sat fortiter rotundato- 
dilatato; elytris grosse cancellato - punctulatis, puncturis. 
postice magnitudine decrescentibus, interstitiis antice sat 
elevatis (alternis ante medium planescentibus);  tibiis 
anterioribus 4 fortiter arcuatis ; abdomine equaliter confer- 
tim subtilissime (vix distincte) punctulato, puncturis 
mayjoribus sparsissime intermixtis ; tarsis posticis sat brey- 
mous.  .ong., 9). 3 lata 22 
A darkly coloured nitid and smooth-looking species, of somewhat 
robust appearance. Its most conspicuous distinctive character 
consists in the very nitid disc of its prothorax, which is very 
much less punctured than in most of its congeners. The type is 
a female. It is allied to Jugwbris I think more closely than any 
other Natalis known to me, from which it may be at once dis- 
tinguished (apart from characters that are possibly sexual) inter 
alia by the considerably longer discal sulcus of its prothorax. 
The possibility of its being the female of /wgubris is at once set 
aside by the fact that its prothorax is very evidently longer and 
narrower than the prothorax of the male of that species. Its 
strongly curved intermediate tibiz seem to forbid it being 
regarded as the female of WV. data, Waterh., as the curvature of 
those tibiz is certainly not a female character in any species 
of which I know both sexes. WV. Mastersi, Macl., is so slightly 
described that it is difficult to be sure whether it is that insect 
or not. Sir W. Macleay merely mentions some differences 
between his Mastersi and porcata. If he referred to porcata of 
either Fab. or Spinola this species cannot be Jastersi, as it is of 
evidently less (not more, as Sir W. Macleay calls his Masters) 
elongate form than either sex of either of those species. 
Queensland. 
JN. planipennis, sp. nov. (= porcata, Spinola nec Fab.) In Ann. 
Mag. of N.H. (6) XIII., Mr. C. O. Waterhouse furnished the 
interesting information that the type of JV. porcata, Fab., is not 
the same species that Spinola called porcata, Fab., but in his 
(Mr. W.’s) opinion is likely to be identical with what Spinola 
called NV. cribricollis. All authors subsequent to Spinola, I 
