584 Mr. "\V. L. Distant on Australasian Coieidaj. 



acute spine on each side before the antenniferous tubercles ; 

 antennae pale ocbraceous^ first joint gradually thickened, 

 longer than head, second slightly longer than third, fourth 

 short, infuscate, thickened, pyriform ; pronotum thickly 

 punctate, pale ochraceous, the basal area from between the 

 lateral angles castaneous brown, lateral angles with their 

 apices acute, blackish ; scutellum pale ochraceous, sparsely 

 punctate, a subapical and two irregular central spots casta- 

 neous brown, the apex greyish white ; corium ochraceous, 

 thickly brownly punctate, a transverse greyish-white fascia 

 a little before apex ; membrane subhyaline ; connexivum 

 ochraceous, with irregular castaneous spots, one before 

 middle largest and occupying the whole margin of the 

 segment ; body beneath, legs, and rostrum pale ochraceous ; 

 sternum coarsely punctate, apices of the lateral angles of the 

 prosternum and apex of the rostrum black ; abdomen 

 beneath with four broad longitudinal series of blackish 

 punctures, a small black marginal spot at the apices of most 

 of the segmental incisures, the lateral segmental angles 

 acutely produced, a blackish spot on each side of the apex of 

 the anal segment. 



Long., S ^\ mm. 



Hah. Queensland ; Mackay {Rowland Turner, Brit. Mus.). 



A species distinct from some Oriental species, which it 

 more or less resembles in colour and pattern, by the very 

 distinct acute spine ou each side before the antenniferous 

 tubercles. 



Genus Clavigralla. 



Clavhjralla, Spin. Ess. p. 200 (1837). 

 Type, C. f/ibbosa, Spin. 



Clavigralla horrens. 



Clavigralla horrens, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxi. p. 40-3 (1860). 

 Cletus ? indecorus, Walk. Cat. Het. iv. p. 197 (1«71). 



Hab. Queensland; Mackay (Roivland Turner, Brit. Mus.). 

 This species had already been recorded from Ceylon, Java, 

 Philippines, Flores, and New Guinea. 



Genus Melanacanthus. 

 Melanaeanthus, StSl, En. Hem. iii. p. 92 (1873). 

 Type, M. ferrugineus, Stal. 



