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(inter hos interspatio supra quam amntennaruin articuli 
basalis longitudo haud latiori); prothorace quam latiori ut 
13 ad 1 longiori, antice valde angustato, subtilissime (vix 
perspicue) punctulato, subtiliter canaliculato, utrinque pone 
medium fovea leviter impresso, lateribus pone medium sat 
parallelis ante medium sat fortiter sinuatis, angulis anticis 
(superne visis) obtusis ; elytris subtilissime crebre ruguloso- 
punctulatis, lineis subelevatis vix perspicuis. Long., 45 1.; 
lat., 12.1. 
A very distinct species, most readily recognisable perhaps by 
the space between the eyes on the upper surface (at any rate in 
one sex—probably in both sexes) being scarcely as wide as the 
length of the basal joint of the antenne. This results from the 
narrowness of the head rather than the eyes being particularly 
large. The prothorax, also, is unusually narrow and elongate. 
Tropical Queensland ; given to me by Mr. Koebele. 
Z. aspericeps, sp. nov. I propose this name for a Zonitis which 
T described (Tr. Roy. Soc., 8.A., XIT., p. 141) as “var (2) A” of 
nigro-cened, Fairm. It is quite distinct from nigro-enea by inter 
alia the rugulose and much closer puncturation of its head. 
PALASTRA. 
In the only two species (of this genus) of which I know both 
sexes, the male is very much smaller than the female, and has 
much longer antennee, their joints only slightly dilated. Seven 
names have been applied to members of this genus, but three of 
them seem to be certainly synonyms, partly through the non- 
recognition of the fact that the difference in the length and 
dilatation of the antenne is sexual. The names, I think, should 
stand as follows :— 
1. rufipennis, Cast. 
rufipennis (Tmesidera), Westw. 
quadrifoveata, Fairm. (Mas.). 
eucera, Fairm. 
. assimilis (Tmesidera), Hope. 
platycera, Fairm. 
4. rufocincta, Fairm. 
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GOETYMES. 
G. pictipes, sp. nov. Niger, labro antennis (harum laminis 
apicem versus obscuris) tibiis tarsisque flavis, elytris (apice 
nigro excepto) pallide brunneis ; setulis brevibus erectis in 
capite prothorace que crebre vestitus; capite crebre sub- 
fortiter punctulato; prothorace transverso, canaliculato, 
subinequali, subtiliter sat crebre punctulato, antice abrupte 
angustato, Jateribus rectis, basi lobato; scutello elongato 
canaliculato ; elytris costatis, fere ut prothorax punctulatis. 
Long., 53 1.—61. 
