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I may add that two species described by me as of this genus 

 -(obsoletum and parvicolle) are only doubtfully referable to it, 

 their antennae being inserted at a greater distance from the eyes 

 than those of typical species. I should have been disposed to- 

 place them in Trigonothops were it not that one of them 

 (obsoletum) has the fourth joint of its tarsi not truly bifid (though 

 appearing so when viewed from the upper side) and that in the 

 other the position of the antenme seems really intermediate 

 between its position in those two genera while its facies is much 

 more that of Ectroma than of Trigonothops. Perhaps in realitj 

 they ought to be considered as representing two new genera, — 

 one of which may be Eulebia (a genus unknown to me and not 

 recognisably diagnosed). 



It is further to be noted that it is just possible I may in the 

 following descriptions re-name some of Macleay's species men- 

 tioned above, the descriptions of which are merely brief indica- 

 tions of color and markings, — but as none of my species agree 

 satisfactorily with those indications and are all from localities 

 very distant from those quoted by Macleay I do not think 

 identity probable. 



JS. elegans, sp. nov. Mas. Testaceum, prothoracis parte mediana 

 late ferruginea, elytris macula magna communi nigro-fusca 

 ornatis (hac reversa arborem simulanti, ad basin sicut ad 

 striam 5^°^ utrinque extenditur dilatata, parte frondem simu- 

 lanti ad striam 7*°" utrinque et ad partem apicalem 8""" 

 extensa, in parte dilatata basali utrinque macula parva sub- 

 scutellari testacea notata) ; oculis subtiliter nullo modo 

 obsolete (fere ut E. henejicce, Newm.) granulatis ; antennis 

 mox ante oculos insertis; capite coriaceo subopaco parum 

 convexo ; prothorace quam longiori ut 2 ad 1 J latiori, antice 

 quam postice manifeste angustiori, canaliculato, coriaceo, 

 subopaco, lateribus sat fortiter rotundatis nullo modo 

 sinuatis, latitudine majori vix ante medium sita, angulis 

 posticis obtusis nullo modo reflexis, basi bisinuata vix lobata ; 

 elytris nitidis, striatis, interstitiis antice subconvexis postice 

 planis ; tarsorum omnium articulo 4° subtus producto ad 

 apicem vix emarginato, supra fere ad basin concavo • 

 articulo o'' prope 4' basin inserto ; unguiculis pectinatis 

 Long., 2f 1.; lat., li 1. 

 The common dark blotch on the elytra (viewed with the head 

 of the insect towards the observer) resembles the figure of a tree 

 with the basal part of the trunk greatly dilated and the upper 

 outline of the foliage serrate. 

 Victoria. 



E. inquinata, Er. I have before me specimens from Western. 

 and South- Western Australia which appear to me distinct from< 



