48 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some neiv or little-hnown 



rows J antennae, palpi, mouth, and throat pale yellow; legs pitchy, 

 stout, femora at the base and apex (or legs altogether) testaceous j 

 body beneath green, more or less covered with greyish hairs. Length 

 3 lines. 



Aulicus instahiUs, Newm., the type of the genus, is such a variable 

 insect, that it is quite possible this may be but one of its protean 

 forms ; nevertheless, besides its smaller size, it is more convex, the 

 prothorax narrower and less depressed, its greatest breadth being 

 behind the middle, and the posterior and anterior margins being 

 nearly equal ; its head is also shorter, the eyes proportionally larger, 

 and the antennae longer ; moreover I have never seen any specimen 

 of A. histahilis approaching this in colour. 



Allelidea [Cleridae]. 



Waterhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. vol. ii. p. 193. 



Allelidea hrevijpennis. (PI. II. fig. 9.) 



A. elongata, atra, nitida ; elytris brevibus, fasciis duabus antennisque 

 (apice excepta) albidis ; tibiis flavis. 



J£ab. Australia (Melbourne). 



Very slender, elongate, deep glossy black j the prothorax moderately, 

 the elytra strongly pimctured, the latter very short, not exceeding half 

 the length of the abdomen, the base and band at the apex a pale yel- 

 lowish-white ; antennae white, except the three apical joints ; tarsi 

 yellow. Length 2 lines. British Museum. 



Lemidia [Cleridae]. 



Spinola, Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 75. 



Lemidia carissima. 

 L. fulvo-testacea, nitida; elytris Isete-viridibus, humeris, fascia media 



apiceque aiu'antiacis ; tibiis tarsisque posticis nigris. 

 Hab. Australia (Melbom-ne). 



Shining reddish-testaceous ; elytra bright gTeen, shoulders, band 

 across the middle, and apex rich orange-red; eyes, tibiae and tarsi 

 black ; throat, meso- and metathorax, and patch on the abdomen brassy- 

 black. Length 3 lines. 



Lemidia insolata. 



L. pallide fulva, breviter setosa ; prothorace nitido ; elytris striato-punc- 

 tatis, dense tomentosis ; oculis apiceque mandibidamm nigris. 



Hah. Macassar. 



Pale tawny, covered with short, erect, setose hairs ; head and pro- 

 thorax glossy ; scutellum and elytra with a dense opake pale tomentum, 

 the latter regularly and finely punctured ; eyes and tips of the man- 

 dibles black. Length 5 lines. 



