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adpressas niveo-pilosas ferentibus; antennis quam corpus 
paullo brevioribus. Long., 18 1.; lat., 641. 
A very fine and distinct species ; independently of the pattern 
of snowy white pubescence the elytra are glabrous ; their pattern 
consists of a large number of isolated and very conspicuous white 
sputs (resulting from the presence of pilosity in each puncture) 
and a broad lateral stripe of very dense pilosity commencing a 
little behind the shoulder and almost reaching the apex ; the 
suture moreover is bordered near its apex by a narrow line of 
white pilosity. The system of markings is very much like that 
of Penthea Saundersi, Pasc., but in that species wnter alia the 
patches of white hairs on the elytra are much larger and less 
numerous and there is no white lateral vitta ; the eyes are very 
much more coarsely granulated in the present species and it is of 
narrower and more elongate form ; these latter characters refer 
it to the genus Rhytiphora. The elytra are rounded at the apex. 
The prothorax has no lateral tooth and the elytra are devoid of 
basal granules. 
N.W. Australia ; in the collection of C. French, Esq. 
EROTYLID. 
EPISCAPHULA. 
E. nigrofasciata, sp. nov. Oblonga; glabra; nitida; sat con- 
vexa ; rufa, capite antennis pedibus (tarsis exceptis) protho- 
racis macula basali (hac antice bilobata) scutello elytrorum 
sutura maculis 3 (his circa scutellum et in humeris positis) 
fasciis 2 latis (altera mox ante medium altera sat longe pone 
medium positis) apice summo et margine laterali summo pro- 
sterni parte inter coxas mesosterno metasterno et abdominis 
segmentis basalibus 3 nigris ; capite crebre punctulato ; pro- 
thorace sat transverso, ad basin haud marginato, antice 
modice angustato, subtiliter sat sparsim punctulato et punc- 
turis nonnullis sat magnis impresso (his ad basin et latera 
versus positis, in parte basali quam apicem versus multo 
majoribus et profundioribus), lateribus fere rectis,—elytris 
vix striatis, seriatim punctulatis (seriebus postice obsoletis, 
2 discoidalibus quam cetere multo magis perspicuis); anten- 
narum articulo 4° quam latiori manifeste longiori. Long., 
321; dat, 1-8, 1. 3 
This species is not unlike a variety of #. australis, Boisd., in 
which the median and post-median rows of spots coalesce into 
fascise, but differs as follows: the red coloring is lighter and more 
inclining towards a yellowish tone, the prothoracic spot is larger 
and is bilobed in front, the sides of the prothorax are straighter, 
the fine puncturation of the prothorax is more sparse and its 
