.^^^. F. p. PiucoL' on new Species (^Laniiidir. 207 



Mocchotypa aclusta. 

 M. brcviuscula, fusco pubcsceus, medio elytrorum grisca • clytris 

 siugiilatim cristis duabus basalibus vix clcvatis, ct baud plumosis. 

 Ilab. Laos. 



This species approaches M. chinensis, Thorns., but is mucli 

 shorter, the colours more clearly liiuited, onlj two short slio-htly 

 elevated crests at the base of each elytron, although there is a 

 vestige of another between them, a round brown' spot on the 

 middle near the suture, and the underparts of a clear pinkish 

 colour. Length 9 lines. 



Rhytipliora Dallasii. 

 R. fusca, nitida, vittis fasciisque argenteo pubcscentibus ornata. 



Ilah. Western Australia. 



Head dark l^rown, sliining, confluently punctured ; marrnn 

 round the eye, a curved line above it, and a stripe in front 

 white; antennae rather shorter than the body {^), brown the 

 four basal joints with a white pubescence, tliird to fifth bearded 

 beneath ; prothorax cylindrical, rather broader than long, 

 finely wrinkled transversely, the margins and three bands 

 white ; scutellum subscutiform, brown ; elytra elongate o-ra- 

 dually narrower from the shoulders to near the apex, the^'su- 

 tural line, a narrow stripe not reaching to the apex, and an- 

 other broad stripe extending from the slioulder to the apex 

 denuded and glossy brown, the intervening portions covered 

 with a dense i)ure silvery white pul)escence, the humeral stripe 

 more or less divided by a longitudinal series of white sijots • 

 body beneath closely pubescent, glossy white ; sides of the 

 metasternum and an oblique spot on each side of the four basal 

 segments of the abdomen denuded, brown ; legs with a close 

 white opaque pubescence. Length 15 lines. 



One of the most striking and distinct of the Australian 

 Longicorns ; its name is intended to serve as a mark o^ aiipre- 

 ciation of the author of the masterly reports on cntoniolony in 

 the 'Zoological Record.' 



Symphyletes dejioratus. 

 S. ferrugineus, griseo pubcsccns ; prothorace postice angustiorc, dorso 

 tuberculis duobus in medio iiistructo ; clytris basi bicristatis 

 humcris fortitcr graiiiilatis, ai)icibus bideutatis. ^ • » 



Hah. Champion Bay. 



Ferruginous, covered with a short, rather dense (except that 

 the middle of the elytra is somewhat (Kiiuded), greyish pubes- 

 cence, closely but indistinctly speckled with fulvous • head 



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