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Fairm.) are both said to be " confertim yunctulatm " which is not 

 the case with any of the species described below. 



I have been careful to refer the following descriptions to 

 such of the characters of the species dealt with as seem to be of 

 possibly generic value. The sculpture of the upper surface seems 

 to fall into several rather distinct types and may be of import- 

 ance, — the surface of some being very conspicuously coriaceous 

 and in others with scarcely any indication of that peculiarity, 

 and again in some of the species before me {II. 7ieIsonensis, 

 Blackb., lindensis, Blackb., eyrensis, Blackb., and uniformis, 

 Blackb.) the puncturation of the elytra is decidedly of squamose 

 appearance, — so that it is little visible when looked at with the 

 head of the specimen towards the observer, but very distinct 

 when the position of the specimen is reversed. In the other 

 species the distinctness of the elytral punctures is not affected 

 by the position from which it is looked at. 



H. hrightensis, sp. nov. Minus lata; obscure brunneo-testacea ; 



subpubescens ; capite coriaceo distincte sat crebre punc- 



tulato ; prothorace quam longiori ut 3 ad 2 latiori, antice 



sat fortiter (ad basin ipsam parum raanifeste) angustato, 



supra coriaceo ut caput punctulato, lateribus anguste reflexo- 



marginatis leviter arcuatis, angulis omnibus obtusis ; scutello 



fere ut pronotum punctulato ; elytris quam prothorax paullo 



latioribus et circiter duplo longioribus, coriaceis, subtilius 



sat sparsim punctulatis, lateribus parum arcuatis, ad apicem 



truncatis ; metasterno postice in medio late angulatim emar- 



ginato. Long., 1 1.; lat., J 1. 



The upper surface is indistinctly marked with some scarcely 



symmetrical infuscation, which is on the disc of the pronotum and 



(in the form of two discal blotches placed longitudinally) on each 



elytron ; the infuscation is unnoticeable from some points of 



view. The labrum does not cover the mandibles, — which is 



inconsistent with the characters Reitter attributes to Haptoncura. 



Victoria ; mountains near Bright. 

 H. Sloanei, sp. nov. Lata ; obscure brunneo-testacea, anten- 

 narum clava sat infuscata ; subpubescens ; capite subplanato 

 coriaceo subtiliter sat sparsim punctulato ; prothorace quam 

 longiori duplo latiori, antice sat fortiter postice vix mani- 

 feste angustato, supra coriaceo et distincte sat crebre punc- 

 tulato, lateribus anguste reflexo-marginatis leviter arcuatis, 

 angulis omnibus obtusis ; scutello punctulato ; elytris quam 

 prothorax vix latioribus minus quam duplo longioribus, 

 coriaceis, minus subtiliter minus sparsim (circa scutellum 

 fere crebre) postice subobsolete punctulatis, lateribus parum 

 arcuatis, ad apicem truncatis ; metasterno postice in medio 

 late angulatim emarginato. Long., -^-^ 1.; lat., ^ 3. 



