62 MST OF CLERIDJS. 



HYDNOCERA FLAVO-VARIA Westw. 



Head black, face yellow. Antennae very short, slightly thickened, 

 yellow. Prothorax with the sides before the middle slightly 

 rounded, of the width of the head, yellow, disk marked with a 

 horse-shoe of a pitchy brown. Elytra elongated, somewhat 

 parallel, subrugose, black ; each with an oblong, basal, yellow spot, 

 another somewhat rounded, nearly in the middle ; another 

 rounded yellow spot before the tip, and the tip itself yellow. 

 Legs yellow, tips of posterior femora, posterior tibise, and 

 posterior tarsi, of a pitchy brown. Body beneath black. 



Length 2 7 \ lines. 



Hob. Australia (King George's Sound). 



HYDNOCERA FLAVO-LINEATA Westw. 



Small, much elongated. Head and prothorax of a dark steel 

 colour, with scattered punctures ; face and labrum whitish. 

 Antennae shorter than the head, yellow, slightly thickened at the 

 tip. Elytra elongated, somewhat parallel, punctured, disk of 

 each marked with a longitudinal palish yellow streak. Legs 

 somewhat fulvous ; femora, especially the posterior, black above ; 

 hind tarsi black. 



Length 2 lines. 

 Hob. S. Australia. 



HYDNOCERA TASMANICA, n. s. 



Elongated. Head in front and mouth yellow ; top of head black ; 

 spot on vertex ferruginous. Thorax depressed above, with a 

 deeply impressed line close to and parallel with the front, 

 smooth, ferruginous. Elytra black ; the base pinkish yellow, 

 except on the margin, which is black ; a pinkish yellow band 

 across the middle, not continued to the margin; the suture 

 black ; tip yellow. Two first pairs of legs yellow ; hind legs black ; 

 base of femora and tibiae yellow ; under side black. Tip of ab- 

 domen black. Antennae wanting in the specimen. 



Length 3 lines. 



Hob, Van Diemen's Land. 



HYDNOCERA PICTA, n. s. 



Head smooth, black, with green reflexions. Face immediately 

 above trophi edged with yellow. Antennae black. Thorax 

 depressed on the back, and suddenly strangulated on the sides 

 behind, with a deep impressed line close to one parallel with the 

 front margin ; deeply foveated in the middle ; bright yellowish 



