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-thorax and then beuding round to the front of the discal 

 polished space, but they are very irregular, and in one of my 

 specimens are almost connected together into ill-defined ridges. 

 The prothorax is equally long and wide, somewhat constricted 

 a little in front of the middle, all the unevenness of the sur- 

 face being behind the constriction ; the sides are distinctly but 

 bluntly tuberculate in the middle. The scutellum is densely 

 clothed with pale adpressed pubescence. The elytra are about 

 four times as long as the prothorax, with, at the base, punc- 

 turation very large, coarse and close, w^hich becomes gradually 

 less strong and less close backwards, till at the apex it is 

 sparing and rather feeble. Each elytron is traversed by 

 three costcT (the outermost not well defined) which are strong- 

 est at the base and gradually fade away towards the apex ; the 

 basal one-third of the surface is shining, the apical two-thirds 

 quite opaque owing to being densely clothed with short ad- 

 pressed pubescence similar to that on the scutellum. The 

 yellowish markings are confined to the anterior non-pubescent 

 part of the elytra ; in one of my specimens they consist of two 

 irregular fasciae (not reaching the suture or lateral margins) 

 placed close together in the hinder half of the non-pubescent 

 surface, and in the other are reduced to two small spots placed 

 on each elytron close together near the lateral margin. On 

 the underside the metasternum and hind body are densely 

 clothed with silvery grey pubescence. 



This species is allied to C. pulescens, Pasc, differing from it 

 inter alia in its very much larger size, and in the puncturation 

 of the elytra being continued (very distinctly indeed) quite to 

 the apex. 



I found two specimens of this fine insect under bark of 

 Mucali/ptus on Yorke's Peninsula. 



BIMIA. 



JB. J^emoralis, Saund. I should say there is little doubt but 

 that this is a variety of JB. hicolor, White, from which it is said 

 to differ in having no black mark on the head, a narrow^ in- 

 stead of wide one on the prothorax, and the middle femora 

 3-ellow instead of black. A short series before me varies in 

 all these respects — no two specimens being coloured quite 

 alike, and no one of them being coloured quite exactly as either 

 of the species named above is said to be, the lightest specimen 

 having a narrow blackish line across the head, and the base of 

 the intermediate femora hlacJc, the darkest having the apex of 

 the intermediate femora yellow. 



