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Epilampra Kerandremii, Le Guillon. 

 Rev. ZooL, 292, 1841 ; Br., Syst., 182. 



" Cinereous, speckled with brown. Palpi testaceous. An- 

 tennae brown. Elytra cinereous, with 8 — 10 brown spots 

 arranged longitudinally in two rows. Legs pale brown. Abdo- 

 men above cinereous, with 10 brown spots, space between pale 

 brown, segments on both sides exteriorly with obscure spots. 

 Length of body ... ... ... ... 36 mm. 



Width of body ■ U " 



Habitat. — Triton Bay, New Guinea (Le Guillon).'^ 



Epilampra dilatata, Brunner (Syst., 185). 

 " Brownish. Head blackish brown. Pronotum broad, 

 brownish testaceous, with black dots. Elytra broad, very ob- 

 tuse at the apex, of similar colour and markings as the pronotum, 

 clouded with brown towards the apex. Abdomen brown ; fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth dorsal and all the ventral segments sometimes 

 with longitudinal brownish streaks. 



Female. 

 Length of body ... ... ... ... 32 mm. 



Length of elytra ... ... ... 27 " 



Length of pronotum ... ... ... 8 " 



Width of pronotum ... ... ... 12 " 



Habitat. — Australia." 



Epilampra laticollis. Walker (Brit. Mus. Cat., 203). 

 " Livid. Face and a broad stripe on the vertex piceous. 

 Antennaj red, piceous towards the base. Pronotum with numer- 

 ous small brown dots, sides semihyaline, hindmargin almost 

 straight. Elytra semicoriaceous, irregularly speckled browm ; at 

 and near base of radial vein some black speckles, branches 

 forked. Wings ashy, veins testaceous, along the costa some 

 brown speckles ; anal area pale cinerous, veins whitish. Supra- 

 anal lamina bilobed. Cerci piceous, apex tawny. 



Female ? 

 Length of body ... ... ... ... 34 mm. 



Length of elytra ... ... ... 32 " 



Habitat. — Richmond River, ]S'ew South Wales." 

 If the sex be rightly stated, this species certainly belongs to 

 another genus, on account of the perfect elytra of the female. 

 Said to' resemble E. notabilis (male?), but to be much larger, the 

 head more concealed by the pronotum, and the wings longer. 



Epilampra aspera, sj^ec. nov. 

 Male. — Pale-grey. Head with a broad brownish-black band 

 at the vertex, a stripe extending on each side to the middle of 



