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ferruginous. Rostrum pitchy brown, with the tip black. An- 

 tennae pitchy brown, with the apical joint reddish. 



a. Port Essington. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



2. ACATALECTUS sepulcralis. 



Cydnus sepulcralis, Erichs. Arch, fur Naturg. viii. 276. 257 



(1842). 

 a. . 



3. ACATALECTUS piceus. 



Cydnus piceus, Hope, Cat. 18 (1837). 



a. . 



b. Van Diemen's Land. From Mr. Shuckard's Collection. 



c. New Holland. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



d. Australia. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



4. ACATALECTUS punctulatus, n. s. 



A. piceus, nitidus, punctatus ; pedibus castaneis, tibiarum spinis 

 nigris, tarsis ferrugineis ; antennis fuscis. $ . 

 Long. lin. 4. 



Pitchy, shining, punctured, fringed all round with hairs. Head 

 with the anterior margin strongly reflexed, entire ; the surface 

 thickly and finely punctured. Thorax with the anterior and la- 

 teral margins and the posterior portion of the disc rather thickly 

 and strongly punctured, the anterior portion of the disc impunc- 

 tate, the posterior margin pitchy red, with a few scattered fine 

 punctures. Scutellum with the disc thickly and strongly punc- 

 tured, somewhat rugose about the middle, the apex rather finely 

 punctured. Coriaceous portion of the elytra deep pitchy brown, 

 thickly and rather more finely punctured ; membrane brownish, 

 semitransparent. Body beneath deep pitchy brown, finely punc- 

 tured, with the disc of the abdomen impunctate. Legs chestnut- 

 brown, with the spines of the tibiae black ; tarsi ferruginous. 

 Rostrum with the two basal joints reddish brown, the two apical 

 ones black. Antennae reddish brown. 



a. New Holland. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



5. ACATALECTUS ater, n. s. 



A. ater, nitidus, punctatus; elytrorum membrana, flavescenti, 

 subopaca; pedibus anticis castaneis, spinis nigris, 4 posticis 

 piceis, tarsis omnibus flavis ; antennis fusco-ferrugineis, apice 

 pallidioribus. 9 

 Long. lin. 3|-. 



Above black, shining, coarsely and irregularly punctured, and 

 fringed all round, especially in front, with short fine bristles. 



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