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excepto) palpis coxis pedibusque rufescentibus ; pube grisea 

 et fusca intermixta vestitus ; prothorace quam longior vix 

 latiori, crebre aspere punctulato, carina longitudinal! 

 mediana interrupta et tuberculis opacis discoidalibus non- 

 nullis instructo, antice quam postice baud angustiori, lateri- 

 bus leviter arcuatis ; elytris insequaliter punctulatis, sparsim 

 granuliferis (granulis a basi retrorsum gradatim minoribus), 

 ad apicem fortiter emarginatis ; antennarum articulis 3° — 5" 

 ad apicem breviter spiniferis, 3° quam 1"' manifeste (quam 

 4''' multo) longiori. 

 Maris antennis quam corpus vix (femin^e manifeste) breviori- 

 bus. Long., 8—9 L; lat., 2| 1. 



The pubescence of the head and pronotum is of a somewhat 

 uniform fuscous color with a tendency to be paler on the sides 

 and tubercles of the latter. The derm itself of the elytra is 

 variegated being in general dull reddish but with an interrupted 

 blackish vitta on a wide feebly elevated longitudinal space 

 traversing the disc. The blackish parts of the elytra are glabrous 

 or nearly so ; the reddish parts are clothed (neither very closely 

 nor very evenly) with pale brownish pubescence ; the evenness of 

 the pubescence is also much interrupted by the granules and 

 punctures of the elytra. The punctures of the elytra vary greatly 

 in size some of them being ver}^ large and coarse. The previously 

 described species of Fhacodes having the apex of the elytra 

 emarginate are bella, Blackb., and tennitarsis, Pasc; of these the 

 former inter alia has the basal part of the elytra very much more 

 strongly and closely granuliferous ; the latter is much smaller, 

 with joints 3 and 4 of the antennae almost equal. 



N.W. Australia (Masters). 



NOTOCERESIUM (gen. nov. Callidiopsidarum ?) 



Mas. Palpi maxillares sat elongati, articulo ultimo sat elongate 

 vix triangulari; palpi labiales brevissimi; caput transversum 

 subrotundatum, antice sat fortiter declive, pone oculos 

 subite angustatum ; antennse quam corpus multo longiores, 

 articulis 1° 5° que inter se sat sequalibus, 3° quam S*"' et 4^ 

 quam 3"* paullo brevioribus ; oculi fortiter granulati, intus 

 sat fortiter emarginati, inter se latissime remoti ; prothorax 

 fortiter transversus, supra aequalis, antice et postice sat 

 aequaliter angustatus, lateribus ad medium angulatis et 

 tuberculo minuto armatis (hinc antice et postice recte con- 

 vergentibus) ; scutellum modicum ; elytra valde elongata sat 

 parallela, postice inermia ; pedes sat elongati, femoribus sat 

 compressis leviter clavatis (posticis abdominis apicem nullo 

 modo attingentibus), tarsorum posticorum articulo basali 

 quam 2"' 3'''' que conjuncti paullo longiori; coxae antice 



