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I have before me an undescribed insect near Strongylurus 
which seems not unlikely to be a Lygesis,; at the same time I 
cannot consider the determination at all reliable. I have also a 
species which is probably Lygesis mendica, Pasc. If the latter 
is right, my examples of it are females; and if so, the insect I 
am about to describe is probably the male of a Lygesis (Mr. 
Pascoe does not say whether he founded the genus on the male or 
female). If this species is not a Lygesis, it represents a new 
genus very near to it. The principal differences that I observe 
consist in the almost contiguous eyes, the much greater length of 
the antenne (which are not much less than half again as long as 
the body), and the very elongate head, which is produced in front 
of the antenne to a length slightly exceeding the length of the 
head behind the antennz; the intermediate cox and adjacent 
parts are asin Strongyluwrus. The antennz, moreover, are dis- 
tinctly compressed, and not much different from those of a female 
Opsidota ; but in Opsidota the head is not produced anteriorly at 
all. 
L. (2) ornata, sp. nov. Sat parallela; setis subtilibus erectis 
sparsius vestita ; nigro-fusca, elytris fere albidis antice et in 
medio fusco-notatis apicem versus rufo-ferrugineis, antennis 
pedibusque ferrugineis; capite antice fortiter producto, 
oculis grosse granulatis permagnis et supra et subtus fere 
contiguis ; prothorace (hoc quam caput parum latiori) quam 
trans basin latiori fere longiori, subcylindrico, antrorsum 
nonnihil angustato, crassissime ruguloso, lateribus vix 
sinuatis; scutello testaceo-pubescenti; elytris (his quam 
prothorax sat latioribus) apice singulatim rotundatis, antice 
ut prothorax (retrorsum gradatim minus crebre minus 
fortiter) sculpturatis. Long., 64 1.; lat., 141 
The anterior fuscous-black mark on the elytra occupies the 
whole of the front quarter (and is continued hindward a little 
on the suture), except a large spot in the middle of the dark 
space so formed, which is of the prevailing yellowish-white 
colour; the hinder mark is extremely like the corresponding mark 
in Strongy!urus scutellatus, Hope; the apical reddish-ferruginous 
space is sharply distinguished from the rest of the surface; its 
front margin is projected forward about at its middle: The narrow 
strip of the whitish ground colour which lies between the hinder 
blackish fascia-like mark and the reddish apical patch appears 
from a certain point of view (7.e., looking across the suture) like 
the figure ‘‘ 3,” owing to the irregularities of outline before and 
behind it. 
Queensland ; in the collection of C. French, Esq. 
