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antennis preter prothoracis basin paullo attingentibus,. 
articulo 3° quam 1". paullo longiori ; prothorace cum elytris. 
sat crebre granuloso-punctulato, transverso, antice angustato, 
lateribus leviter rotundatis; elytris obsolete striatis, ad 
apicem rotundatis, femoribus inermibus. Long. (rostr. incl.), 
2—3 1; lat., 2—1 (vix) 1 
I cannot ascertain that this extremely common little species 
has ever been described. I have little doubt that it is the insect. 
named P. australis (but not described) by Mr. Hope as the type 
of the genus Pachyuwra and that the insect which Schonherr 
described as P. australis, Hope, was wrongly identified; the 
latter I have not seen from 8. Australia whereas this little spe- 
cies is plentiful in the localities from which Hope obtained most 
of his insects. P. minima is a variable insect, its derm (includ- 
ing the legs and antenne) ranging in color from red to pitchy 
black and the squamosity (which is coarse and seta-like) from 
pale to bright ochraceous. The squamosity is vaguely and 
sparsely dispersed over the whole upper surface exceyt the apical 
part of the rostrum and in places is denser than elsewhere, this 
condensation of scales causing the appearance of an ill-defined 
pattern which consists of three lines running hindward from the 
level of the eyes to the base of the prothorax and three elytral 
fascie (subbasal, median, and subapical). It is however only in 
well preserved specimens that the elytral fasciz are all distin- 
guishable; average specimens give the appearance of elytra 
somewhat evenly squamose except in there being a semi-denuded 
space before and behind the middle. The sexual differences are 
not very marked ; the males however are smaller and less robust 
than the females, and the rostrum in the former sex is slightly 
shorter than (while in the latter it is as long as) the head. The 
small size of this species is in itself a sufficient character to dis- 
tinguish it from others previously described. 
S. Australia; Victoria; N.S. Wales. 
LONGICORNES. 
PACHYDISSUS. 
P. Frenchi, sp. nov. Piceus; pube sericea lete argentea densa 
interrupte vestitus; prothorace ad latera obtuse tumido, 
supra crasse ruguloso ; elytris ad apicem oblique truncatis, 
partis truncate angulis spiniformibus ; oculis supra modice 
approximatis, subtus late distantibus; spatio inter oculos 
subtus capillis subtilibus elongatis dense vestito, sat crebre 
punctulato, carina obtusa insigni transversim arcuata in- 
structo; antennarum articulo basali crasse nec profunde 
ruguloso. 
