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also the more convex Ijuikl gives this species can appearance 

 somewhat different from those of the Australian species known 

 to me that have been attributed to Menephilus, but T cannot find 

 any character whereby to distinguish it from them (e.g., 

 M. Golydioides, Er.). 



N.S. Wales, near Sydney ; also in the Bhie Mountains. 



CISTELID.E. 

 ALCM^OXIS. 



A. punctnhdicoUis, sp. nov. Sat elongata ; capillis erectis 

 albidis nonnullis vestita; niger, (exempt typici) prothorace 

 elytrisque la?te purpureis, labro mandibulis palpis anten- 

 narum basi pedibusque l?ete testaceis ; capite sat fortiter, 

 prothorace multo minus fortiter, crebre punctulatis ; elytris 

 punctulato-striatis, interstitiis sat convexis et intequaliter 

 punctulatis. 

 Mas. Antennis quam corporis dimidium sat longioribus ; 

 femoribus compressis, posticis subtus (in medio anguhitim) 

 dilatatis, tibiis posticis intus planatis et fortiter l^isinuatis. 

 Femina latet. Long., 4| 1.; lat., \^ 1. 



This sjDecies seems to present the feeble distinctions from 

 Atractus on which the genus Alcmmonis was established. It 

 appears to diflfer from A. pidchra, Bates, considerably in color, 

 the prothorax of that species being described as castaneous wdth 

 some black markings, and the elytra as green with purple reflec- 

 tions and silky golden pubescence, whereas in the present insect 

 the prothorax and elytra are of uniform bright purple color and 

 the thinly dispersed hairs on the latter are wdiitish. The pro- 

 thorax of A. pulchra is said to be longer than wide, wdiereas that 

 of A. pnnctidaticollis is (by measurement) slightly wider than 

 long. Even if it should prove to be a variety of A. pidclira^ it 

 seems desirable that the present insect should be described, as no 

 description has hitherto appeared of a male Alcmaonis. 

 Victoria ; Alpine district. 



LICYMXIUS. 



L. hicolor, sp. nov. Mas. (?). Elongatus ; breviter minus crebre 

 pubescens ; niger vix cyaneus, prothorace hete rufo, palpis 

 femorum anticorum basi et genubus omnibus rufescentibus ; 

 capite fortiter minus crebre punctulato ; prothorace leviter 

 transverso, longitudinaliter vix impresso, ante basin mediam 

 leviter foveolato, subfortiter minus crebre punctulato, antice 

 angustato, lateribus leviter arcuatis, basi manifeste sinuata, 

 angulis posticis distinctis obtusis ; elytris ad basin quam 

 prothoracis basis hand multo latioribus, suturam versus 



