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dium sat fortiter sinuatis, basi subfortiter sinuata, angu- 

 lis posticis bene definitis subdentiformibus ; elytris for- 

 tius geminato-striatis, fortius sat crebre j3Uiictulatis ; py- 

 gidio sat iiitido crebrius dupliciter (subtiliter et minus 

 subtiiiter) leviter punctulatis ; tarsorum posticorum 

 articulo basali quani 2"^ sat breviori. Long., 8 J 1. ; lat., 



HI- 



The strong sinuation of the sides of the prothorax be- 

 hind the middle readily distinguishes this species from H. 

 Gouldi, Hope, and H . nohiUs, Blackb, Its antenna] club with 

 only three lamellae separates it from //. he.lla, Blackb., and 

 th© very much longer stipes of its antennae from H. pul- 

 cheUa, Blackb. I have no doubt the female differs from the 

 male by the much shorter lamellae of its antennae. 



Victoria ; given to me by Mr. French. 



H. lucifera, sp. nov. Fem.( ?) Breviter ovata ; minus ni- 

 tida ; rufa, antennis palpis elytrisque testaceo-brunneis ; 

 iridescens : corpore subtus femoribusque longe pilosis ; pal- 

 porum maxillarium articulo 3" quam 2"* multo (quam 

 4**'* sat) breviori ; antennis 9-articulatis, articulo 3° 2*" 

 longitudine subaequali, clava 4-articulata quam articuli 

 2-5 conjuncti vix breviori, clavae articulo basali quam 2"* 

 circiter dimidio breviori : clypeo modice elongato, for- 

 titer reflexo, nitido, cum fronte sat crebre punctulato ; 

 prothorac-e quam longiori duplo latiori, antice fortiter 

 angustato, supra sparsim subtilissime punctulato, lateri- 

 bus sat arcuatis sat anguste marginatis, basi sat fortiter 

 sinuata, angulis posticis rotundatis ; elytris modice gemi- 

 nato-striatis, leviter dupliciter (subtiliter et minus sub- 

 tiliter) sat crebre punctulatis ; pygidio pernitido, punc- 

 turis subtilissimis sparsissimis setiferis impresso ; tar- 

 sorum posticorum articulo basali quam 2"" multo bre- 

 viori. Long., 111.; lat., 6f 1. 



A species of very widely ovate form, very close to the 

 insect that I take to be H. gigantea, Burm., but differing 

 from it strongly by the structure of its antennae and the 

 sculpture of its pygidium. I do not think I can be mis- 

 taken in my identification of gigantea with a species (of 

 which there is a male in my collection and a female in Mr. 

 Lea's), from Perth, W.A., agreeing well with the description 

 except in respect of the antennae. Burmeister says that the 

 antenna] flabellum of tlie female is 3-jointed. and tliat of the 

 male 4-jointed, while I regard the flabellum as 4-jointed in 

 both sexes. As a fact, I do not thinly that there is any 

 Thcjilonyrha in which it is correct to regard the number of 

 joints in tlie flabellum as different in the sexes : and that, in 



