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tuberculo parvo nitido mediano, utrinque ad disci latera 
tuberculo magno bifido, et in lateribus veris tuberculo conico, 
armato), sparsim punctulato ; elytris sparsim (apicem versus 
obsolete) punctulatis, vix manifeste costatis, ad apicem 
truncatis, in parte basali tuberculis parvis nitidis ornatis 
(horum nonnullis biseriatim positis). Long., 6 1. ; lat., 
This species is easily recognisable by the two conspicuous spots 
of snowy-white pubescence on the disc of each elytron—the 
anterior and larger one a little in front of, the other a little 
behind, the middle. 
I do not think I can be mistaken in referring this insect to 
Oricopis, although I have not previously seen an example of the 
genus. It agrees perfectly with the characters assigned by Mr. 
Pascoe, except that I can scarcely consider the intermediate 
cotyloid cavities open externally. Their aperture is certainly 
only very narrow. However, to regard them as closed would in- 
volve placing the insect among species where it would seem quite 
out of place, and in all other respects it seems very close, even 
specifically, to the typical Oricopis. Its divaricate claws, inter- 
mediate tibiz externally emarginate, tubercled mesosternum, and 
remarkably tubercled prothorax seem to forbid its generic separa- 
tion from O. umbrosus, Pasc. 
N.S. Wales ; Tweed River District. 
SYBRA. 
S. Mastersi, sp. nov. Picea, pube fulva (hac grisea brunnea que 
marmorata) vestita ; elytris macula communi (hac pube nivea 
densa vestita, suturam mediam late tegenti et in humerum 
marginemque lateralem posticum ramos obliquos utrinque 
emittenti); capitis prothoracisque sculptura sub pubem 
abdita ; prothorace nonnihil inequali, subtransverso, postice 
quam antice vix latiori; elytris sat fortiter subseriatim 
(apicem versus magis obsolete) punctulatis, ad apicem anguste 
sat acute productis, partis ap aisdeal margine suturali sat 
fortiter concavo. Long., 7 1. ; lat., 22 1. (vix). 
This is a very pretty insect, and appears to be very distinct 
from all the numerous species of the genus previously described. 
It is clothed with fulvous pubescence slightly mottled with brown 
and white; this pubescence is very evenly distributed on the 
upper surface, except that each elytron is traversed by a well- 
defined wide band of white pubescence which, commencing on 
the shoulder, runs obliquely to the suture, and on reaching it runs 
along it to considerably behind its middle, when it turns outward 
and runs obliquely to the lateral margin, which it nearly touches 
a little in front of the apex. The under-surface is much clothed 
with greyish-white pubescence. 
N. Queensland ; presented to me by Mr. G. Masters. 
