f}8,6 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Additions to 



genus agrees in habit and in the rounded base of the prothorax, 

 it may be at once distinguished by the scrobes running beneath 

 the rostrum. 



Phceodica fulvicornis. 



P. nigra, supra squamis griseo-albis sejunctim vestita ; rostro nigro, 

 squamoso, apice nudo fulvescente excepto ; antennis fulvesceu- 

 tibus ; prothorace utriuque rotundato, basi quam apice duplo 

 latiore ; scutello squamoso ; elytris leviter sulcatis, interstitiis 

 planatis, irregulariter sqnamosis, humeris obliquis ; corpore infra 

 pedibusque argenteo-squamosis. Long. Ig lin. 



Hob. West Australia. 



Flueodica scutellaris. 



P. nigra, supra squamis roseo-griseis sejunctim vestita ; rostro 

 magis tenuato, nigro, apicem versus aliquando fulvescente ; an- 

 tennis fulvescentibus, vel paulo infuscatis ; prothorace latitudine 

 vix breviore, apice quam basi fere duplo angustiore ; scutello 

 esquamoso, nigro ; elytris leviter sulcatis, interstitiis planatis, 

 squamis seriatim dispositis, humeris subrotundatis ; corpore infra 

 pedibusque argenteo-squamosis. Long. 1^ Un. 



Hab. Swan River. 



The elytra in nearly all my specimens are more or less 

 varied with blackish patches, in part but not invariably owing 

 to slight abrasions. The rosy tint is sometimes scarcely notice- 

 able. 



'Empiea. 



nostrum prothorace paulo brevius, subrobustum, arcuatum ; scrobes 

 praemedianse, paulo obliquae, ad partem inferiorem ocuh antice 

 currentes, basin versus ampliati, OcuU transversi, ovati, fortiter 

 granulati. Scajnis oculum hand attingens, apice clavatus ; funi- 

 culus 7-articulatus, articido basali amplo, duobus sequentibus 

 longiore, caeteris subobconicis, ultimis transversis ; clava elongata, 

 distincta. ProUiorax transversus, utriuque parum rotundatus, 

 basi subbisinuatus, lobis ocularibus obsoletis. Scutellum parvum. 

 Elytra prothorace paulo latiora, subcjHndrica. Pectus antice 

 profunde emarginatum. Pedes mediocres ; femora vahda, mutica ; 

 tihice subcylindricse, intus bLsinuatse, apice mucronatae ; tarsi lati, 

 breviuscuH, articulo ultimo valido ; unguiculis divaricatis. Abdo- 

 men segmentis duobus basalibus ampliatis. 



The rostrum is intermediate in thickness between the general 

 run of the Hyperinse and of the Erirhininse ; but in habit it 

 seems more akin to the former. The stout claw-joint and its 

 divaricate claws, however, are foreign to the group ; but there 

 is an approach to these characters in some of the Erirhininae, 

 in which 1 have therefore placed it. 



