^Ir. W. L. Dititant on Aiistralastan rcutalomiJie. 379 



npc\ l)l:uk ; abdomen with the central sulcation only promi- 

 nent c u hasal area. 



lioii^;. IH niM). ; exp. ironot. an-;!. 8^ mm. 



Ilab. S. Ccntr. Australia ; 100 miles E. of Lake Eyre {ff. J. 

 Ihllur, Hrit. Mns.). 



Allied to E. viitiventris, St&l, from which it differs by its 

 mnch more slender form and tiie minute second joint of the 

 antenna}. 



Eumecojius confusus, sp. n. 



Oehraceous, thiekly mottled and piuictiired with black ; 

 head black, with three basal longitiulinal fascia*, the two 

 outermost of which are narrowly continued towards apex, a 

 fascia margining each side of central lobe, basal halves of 

 lateral margins, basal margins of eyes, and a spot behind 

 them oehraceous, most of the punctures arranged longitu- 

 dinally ; antennie with the first and second joints castaneous, 

 third, fourth, and fifth black, with their bases oehraceous, 

 extreme apices of second and third oehraceous, second joint 

 distinctly longer than third, fourth longest ; pronotum 

 coarsely punctate and suhrugulose, lateral margins mode- 

 rately concavely sinuate, their apices very obscurely crcnulate, 

 the posterior angles moderately subspinously produced ; 

 scutellum blackly punctate, more continently so on basal and 

 apical areas, three basal sj)ots and tiie apex oehraceous, levi- 

 gate ; corium irregularly blackly punctate, the punctures in 

 somewhat longitudinal series on inner and outer margins of 

 costal area and a little continently on posterior disk ; mem- 

 brane bronzy-brown ; eonncxivum black, thickly punctate, 

 with its latiral margin oehraceous ; head beneath oehraceous, 

 with two longiliulinal black lines on each side; sternum 

 ochracet)us, mottled and punctured with black; abdomen 

 beneath l)laek, the segmental margins and a central broken 

 macular fascia oehraceous, lateral margins uniformly narrowly 

 greenish oehraceous ; legs blackish mottled with oehraceous, 

 posterior tibial with a broad (K'hracc ous annulation. 



Long. 24 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 13 mm. 



Hah. Queensland {F. P. Dndd, Jirit. Mus.). 



Allied to E. conspersus, Walk., from which it difiers by 

 the second joint of the anlennje being longer than the 

 third, not half the length of the third lus in Walker's species ; 

 also by the pale marginal bord(>r, not marginal spots, to 

 the alxiomen beneath ; antenniferous tubercles outwardly 

 obtusely spinous in connpi-rsus^ not so in confusus. 



