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legs rusty (one example has the basal joint of the antennae 

 pitchy). There is a yellow spot about the centre of each 

 elytron. In one of my specimens it is large and obscurely 

 continued to the margin, and there is a distinct yellow spot at 

 the apex ; in the other it is very small, and the apex is only 

 reddish ; the mandibles are a little reddish at the base. The 

 puncturation of the head is large, rough, and ill-defined in 

 front, close and strong behind. The thorax is very shining and 

 almost smooth (having only a few large isolated punctures),, 

 except on the sides, where the puncturation is closer and 

 coarse ; its surface is uneven with ill-defined smooth swellings, 

 and there is a smooth rounded tubercle about the middle of the 

 lateral margin on either side. The punctures of the elytra are 

 large and moderately close, but scarcely rugose, at the base;, 

 they become gradually finer and more sparing towards the^ 

 apex, but there is no well-marked commencement of their 

 change, and they have very little tendency to a linear arrange- 

 ment. The third joint of the antennae carries a short spine, the 

 other joints are unarmed. In one of my specimens the antennae 

 are of the length of the body, in the other shorter. In one of 

 my examples the metasternum only, in the other the whole 

 under surface, is red. Femora clavale. 



This species is allied to A. Angasi, Pasc, from which it differs 

 in its sublaevigate thorax a little wider than long, in the strong 

 spine at the sutural apex of the elytra, &c., &c. 



Two specimens were presented to me some time ago by Prof. 

 Tate. They were taken at Fowler's Bay. 



COPTOCERCUS. 



C. fraternus, sp. nov. Eobustus ; longe sparsim hirsutus ,- 

 niger ; antennis, palpis, pedibusque fuscis ; elytris ante 

 medium flavo-notatis, postice crebre breviter pubescentibus 

 sparsim fortius punctulatis, apice truncatis. Long. 13 1. 

 A robust species, sparingly clothed all over (including the 

 legs and antennae) with long erect hairs of the same colour as^ 

 the surface from which they spring. The antennae in one of my 

 specimens are decidedly, in the other scarcely, shorter than the 

 whole length of the insect ; in both specimens joints three to six 

 are furnished with external spines decreasing in size — in on& 

 joints 7 and 8 also being obscurely spined. The head is 

 closely and roughly but rather finely punctured. The general 

 surface of the prothorax is closely, irregularly, and very 

 coarsely punctured and it bears some impunctate (and conse- 

 quently more shining) elevated spaces ; these consist of a 

 longitudinal patch in the middle of the disc and a series of 

 tubercles running obliquely forward and outward on either 

 side from the base to about the middle of the length of the 



