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latis, coiifertim subtiliter puuctulatis, leviter striatis. 

 Long., If 1. 



In shape and sculpture the head and thorax do not differ 

 much from the same parts in the preceding species but they 

 are rather more shining. The elytra are scarcely wider than 

 the thorax, and the whole insect has an elongate parallel f acies. 

 The suture is broadly blackish in its anterior fifth part, the 

 remainder of its length being very narrowly blackish. A 

 fuscous line commences about the middle of each elytron close 

 to the suture and runs parallel to the suture, almost to the 

 xipex, where it merges into a fuscous cloud, which overspreads 

 the hind part of the suture but does not quite reach the apex. 

 On each shoulder is a dark fuscous mark shaped like a horse- 

 shoe, its convex edge touching the anterior margin. Im- 

 mediately in front of the middle of each elytron, near to the 

 lateral margin, is a large blackish spot between which and the 

 suture is a narrow longitudinal blackish line. A little before 

 the apex there is a dark mark shaped like z. The blackening 

 of the anterior part of the suture and the horse-shoe-like mark 

 on each shoulder produce together the appearance of five short 

 iind somewhat parallel longitudinal lines running out from the 

 base, of which the external two on either side are joined on 

 the anterior margin. The puncturation of the elytra is finely 

 rugose and very close — much closer than in S. Flindersi. 



This insect seems to resemble H. Australasi(S, AVaterh., in 

 general form, especially in the slight narrowing of the elytra 

 behind the shoulders, but to be distinguished from it by having 

 the elytra evidently striated, and very differently marked. It 

 is difficult to specify the differences from the Queensland 

 H. Mastersi, Macleay (which it resembles in having striated 

 •elytra), owing to the brevity of the description of that insect; 

 but the first word in the description, " black," would seem to 

 preclude the identification with it of a species in which there 

 is no genuinely black colour at all. Indeed, except for this 

 expression "black," and the mention of the striation of the 

 elytra, there is nothing in the description to show that 

 li. AustralasicB may not be identical with it. 



I possess a single specimen, taken near the G-range, on the 

 banks of the Torrens. 



LAMELLICOKNES. 

 PACHTGASTKA. 



I have before me three specimens of an insect which I cannot 

 doubt is that described by G-ermar under the name Facliygastra 

 Tasmanica. The author is unsatisfactorily brief in character- 

 ising the elytral sculpture, saying merely that the elytra are 

 faintly seriate-punctate, with interstices confusedly punctured, 



