264 Mr. A. White on some apparently unrecorded 



Jacq. in 'Voy. of Astrolabe and Zelee'), which also I believe 

 to be specifically identical with P. Gouldiee, than any other 

 described species, especially in the scarlet and green of its beau- 

 tiful plumage. 



Poephila Paddoni, J. >PG, Rostro nigro ; froute, sincipite, gula, 

 pectoreque phceniceis ; uropygio pennisque duobus centralibus 

 eaudae supra rubro-phoeniceis ; loris cseruleo-viridibus ; cseteris 

 partibus corporis metallico-viridibus ; tarsis, digitis et unguibus 

 atro-fuscis. 



Mas. Rostro 0*3, ala 2'2a, Cauda 2*0 ; toto corpora 4-1 in long, 

 uncise Anglicae. 



Hab. in Nova Caledonia, praesertim apud insulam "Nu" dictam. 



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John MacGillivray. 



XXVIII. — Descriptions of some apparently unrecorded species of 

 Longicorn Beetles, belonging to the genera Phrissoma, Nyphona, 

 &c. By Adam White, Assistant, Zool. Dept. Brit. Mus. 



Phrissoma amycteroides, n. s. 



Ph. glab rum, nigrum ; thorace medio tuberculo magno postice fur- 

 cato ; elytris singulis lineis tribus spinarura crassarum ; tibiis apice 

 brunneo-pilosis. 



Smooth, black, shining; last eight joints of antennae with 

 short brownish pile; lateral spines of thorax sharp, placed for- 

 ward ; between them, in the middle, is a high tubercle, rounded 

 in front and on the top, forked behind ; elytra slightly scabrous, 

 each with three longitudinal lines of sharp spine-like tubercles, 

 those of the outer row the smallest ; elytra at the widest part 

 not much broader than between the tips of the thoracic spines ; 

 tibiae at the end covered with short light-brown hairs. 



Length 8 lines. 



Hab. Port Natal. (Coll. Gueinzius, in Mus. Brit.) 



This longicorn beetle has much resemblance, at first sight, to 

 some of the spined species of the Australian Curculionidous 

 genus Amycterus. 



Phrissoma Hipporhinus, n. s. 



Ph. pilosum, fuscum, nigro variegatum ; thorace medio tuberculo 

 magno postice emarginato ; elytris thorace multo crassioribus, 

 tuberculatls, singulis liueis tribus tuberculorum cteteris paulo ma- 

 jorum. 



Pale brown, not very thickly pilose, with small scattered black 



