370 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or Uttle-hiown Coleoptera. 



witli yellow hair ; legs reddish ferruginous ; antennae black ; posterior 



angle of the metathorax yellow. Length 7 lines. 



Differs from H. moerens, Pasc, in the narrower prothorax, longer 

 elytra, the absence of the yellow border at the apex of the first 

 abdominal segment above, and in the first three segments beneath 

 margined with yellow. 



DiSTicHOCERA [Corambycidae ?]. 

 Kirby, Trans. Lin. Soc. xii. p. 471. 



Distichocera mutator. 



D. ater ; prothorace vittis duabus elytrisque rubro-aurantiacis. 



Jlab. Queensland. 



Deep black ; two broad lateral stripes on the prothorax, and the 

 elytra, reddish-orange ; head produced anteriorly, deeply grooved be- 

 tween the antennae, a broad longitudinal excavation on each side in 

 front, a silvery pubescence beneath the eyes, which are of a pale horn- 

 colour ; prothorax rather broader than long, black, a wide orange stripe 

 on the disk on each side ; scutellum triangular, black, bordered with 

 orange ; elytra slightly narrowing from the shoulders, the apex sub- 

 truncate, the outer angle toothed, each with five elevated lines, the 

 intervals closely and finely punctured ; antennae about two-thirds the 

 length of the body ; legs slender, the tarsi fi'inged with silvery hairs. 

 Length 9 lines. 



This is so exceedingly like the female of Distichocera rnaculicollis, 

 Kirby, that it might be very readily taken to be the male if we had 

 not been already well acquainted with the sex of that species. 



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