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joint as lon<: iis thf ivst topother; body Ix-nr.ith with ii i)iil.--frrt.yi,sh 

 pilo. Lon^^th 10 lines. 



The crosocMit-slmpccl sorios of short crost.s on the prothorax will 

 reiidily distinguish lliis spooios ; tlie hairs on the elytra a))pear to 

 be very deciduous, and ar»> {generally rubbed off the more j)rc)niiuent 

 portions. 



Symimiylktes [LamiidttiJ. 

 Newman, Eutomol. p. 302. 



Symphyletes pubiventr'is. 



S. subcylindricus, pube cinerascente fulvaque varius ; elytrorum lateribu.s 

 maeiilis duabus albis ; maris abdominis seprmento secundo anipliato, 

 densissime hirsuto. 



Hah. Australia (Kangaroo Island). 



Subcyliudrieal, black, covered with a short, very pale ashy pile, varied 

 with light fulvous, and spotted with coarse black punctures; head 

 rather narrow^, the vertex very convex ; antennae nearly equal in both 

 sexes, not so long as the body, dark brown, not spotted, and very 

 slightly ciliated beneath ; prothorax nearly equal in length and breadth, 

 the anterior margin scarcely narrower than the posterior, the side a little 

 rounded, although irregularly, the disk with the two usual shallow 

 transverse depressions; scutellum subtriangular, rounded posteriorly; 

 elytra subparallel, the apex entire, several black shining granules 

 arranged in irregular rows, and extending to near the apex, two white 

 irregular spots on each side partially margined with dark brown ; legs 

 and body beneath covered with a similar varied pile ; the second abdo- 

 minal segment in the male larger than in the female, and densely 

 covered w^th short erect bail's. Length 8 lines. 



A more cylindrical species than most others of this genus, in 

 general colour approaching S. fronticornisy Fab. ; but the two white 

 spots on the sides of the elytra will readily distinguish it. The 

 peculiar structure of the second abdominal segment is very rarely 

 met vdih. among the Longicoms, and appears to be confined to the 

 males. There is nothing to distinguish St/mpJu/Ictts from Rlujtiphora, 

 Serv., except that the latter has not the lateral tooth on the protho- 

 rax, which generally characterizes the former ; the last joint of the 

 antennse, ^'apice repente curvato,^^ which Newman gives as a character, 

 is only found in two or three species. How Pcnthea, Lap., is to be 

 distinguished I don't know ; it is a stouter form, with shorter and 

 more robust legs, than either Symphyletes or lihyt'iphora. My Pentheu 

 conferta (Am), from its toothed mesosternum and absence of an ten - 

 nary tubercles, must be excluded from the genus. Perhaps it should 

 be placed near Coptops, Serv. The spine on the anterior coxa? of the 



