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Of very m^nifesbIy shorter and wider build than the preceding 

 (11. brighlensis) and also differing from it inter alia by its pro- 

 thorax considerably more transverse, its head more finely and 

 sparsely punctulate and its elytra more strongly and closely 

 puncbulate, especially in the scubellar region where the punctures 

 are almost crorvded. In this species the labrum covers the man- 

 dibles but I cannot attribute great importance to the character 

 as it seems to me to depend to some extent at least on the atti- 

 tude of the mandibles at the time when the specimen died. Cer- 

 tainly I could nob separate these two generically. The upper 

 surface of this species has some vague inf uscation not unlike that 

 of the preceding. 



N.S. Wales ; from Mr. T. G. Sloane. 



H. 7ielson3}isis, sp. nov, Modice lata; brunneo-testacea, abdomi- 

 nis segmentis intermediis infuscatis ; sat pubescens ; capite 

 subtiliter vix crebre punctulato ; probhorace quim longiori 

 ut 12 ad 7 latiori, antice sat fortiter postice vix manifesto 

 angustato, supra coriaceo et crebre (nee ullo modo confluen- 

 ter) minus subtiliter punctulato, lateribus anguste reflexo- 

 marginatis leviter arcuatis, angulis omnibus obtusis; scutello 

 fere ut pronotum (sed paullo subbiliusj sculpturato ; elytris 

 quam prothorax parum latioribus vix duplo longioribus, 

 ■coriaceis, sat crebre leviter subsquamose punctulatis, lateri- 

 bus parum arcuatis, ad apicem truncatis; metasterno postice 

 in medio late angulabim emarginato. Long., 1 I.; lat., J 1. 

 The elytral puncturation of this species differs from bhat of the 

 preceding two species in being much less sharply defined (as in 

 lindensis, Blackb., Meyricki, Blackb , Victoriensis, B^ackb., and 

 ocularis, Fairm.). It differs from that of the last named two in 

 the derm on which this puncturation is placed being very dis- 

 tinctly coriaceous, and from that of lindensis in its being much 

 closer. It is more like that of Meyricki, but that species dififers 

 from the present one in respect of other characters, — e.g. in the 

 puncturation of its pronotum being confluent. Such infuscation 

 of the elytra as is present consists of a vague triangular common 

 blotch in the scutellar region and an ante-apical cloud. 



Victoria ; on flowers near Nelson. 

 S. sparsior, sp. nov. Modice lata ; obscure brunneo-testacea, 

 antennarum clava et meso-meta-que sternis nigricantibus ; 

 subpubescens ; capite coriaceo subtiliter sat sparsim punc- 

 tulato ; prothorace quam longiori fere duplo latiori, antice 

 sat fortiter postice vix manifesto angustato, supra coriaceo 

 €t sparsim minus subtiliter punctulato, lateribus anguste 

 reflexo-marginatis leviter arcuatis, angulis omnibus obtusis • 

 scutello coriaceo sparsissime punctulato ; elytris quam pro 



