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mixed, so as to present to a casual glance a confused appearance, 

 with very little pattern. On careful inspection there are seen to 

 be three feebly-detined pale vittfe on the prothorax, and an inde- 

 terminate blackish fascia behind the middle of the elytra, in which 

 the scales are somewhat fasciculated (so as to present a tubercled 

 appearance) near the suture on either side. There are species in 

 several genera closely resembling this in the colour and arrange- 

 ment of scales, notably Cydnam diver sa, Blackb. (which, how- 

 ever, is a much broader insect with subconical prothorax and more 

 finely granulated eyes), and a sp., which will be described in a 

 future paper. 



Victoria ; sent by Mr. French. 

 E. Sydney ensis^ sp. nov. Oblonga (mari magis elongato) ; picea 

 vel rufo-picea, antennis pedibusque magis rufescentibus ; 

 squamis concoloribus et nonnullis albidis vestita ; rostro 

 quam prothorax vix longiori, longitudinaliter carinis 

 subtilibus ornato ; funiculi articulo basali quam 2"' sat (sed 

 minus quam duplo) longiori : prothorace quam latiori fere 

 longiori, albido-trivittato, lateribus minus rotundatis; elytris 

 punctulato-striatis, in humeris albido-squamosis et fascia 

 brevi communi postmediana (hac in sutura retrorsum 

 producta) albido-squamosa ornatis. Long, (rostr. inch). If ].; 

 lat., 4 1. (vix). 

 The pattern formed by the whitish scales renders this species 

 fairly easy to recognise. It consists of three vitt.e on the pro- 

 thorax, a spot on each shoulder, and a common mark on the hind 

 one-third of the elytra resembling the letter T, but in some 

 examples this reseml^lance is obscured by the lower part of the 

 stem being dilated. In one example there are indications of a 

 whitish spot about the middle of the suture. Differs from 

 E. tenehricosa by its different and better defined markings, its 

 shorter rostrum (especially in the female), antennae with the scape 

 decidedly red and moi^ robust, etc. In the male the metaster- 

 num and basal ventral segment are longitudinally concave. 

 N.S. Wales; taken by Mr. Lea near Sydney. 



EMPOLis (Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., vol. Y., 1890, p. 342). 

 This genus is in many respects near to Eniopea, but may be 

 distinguished from it at once by the possession of well-defined 

 ocular lobes. 



E. longipes, sp. nov. Sat elongatus ; subparallelus ; ferrugineus, 

 squamis concoloribus et nonnullis albidis et pallide ochraceis 

 intermixtis (his ad prothoracis latera et ad elytrorum 

 apicem condensatis) vestitus ; antennarum funiculi articulo 

 2° quam P* haud breviori ; elytris punctulato-striati.-t.. 

 Long, (rostr. inch), 21.; lat., f 1. (vix.) 



