48 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-known 



rows; antennae, palpi, mouth, and throat pale yellow; leg's pitchy, 



stout, femora at the base and apex (or legs altogether) testaceous ; 



body beneath green, more or less covered with greyish hairs. Length 



3 lines. 



Aulicus instabilis, Newm., the type of the genus, is such a variable 

 insect, that it is quite possible this may be but one of its protean 

 forms ; nevertheless, besides its smaller size, it is more convex, the 

 prothorax narrower and less depressed, its greatest breadth being 

 behind the middle, and the posterior and anterior margins being 

 nearly equal; its head is also shorter, the eyes proportionally larger, 

 and the antennas longer ; moreover I have never seen any specimen 

 of A. instabilis approaching this in colour. 



Allelidea [Cleridae]. 



Waterhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. vol. ii. p. 193. 



Allelidea brevipennis. (PI. II. fig. 9.) 



A. elongata, atra, nitida ; elytris brevibus, fasciis duabus antennisque 



(apice excepta) albidis ; tibiis flavis. 

 Hob. Australia (Melbourne). 



Very slender, elongate, deep glossy black ; the prothorax moderately, 

 the elytra strongly punctured, the latter very short, not exceeding half 

 the length of the abdomen, the base and band at the apex a pale yel- 

 lowish-white ; antennae white, except the three apical joints; tarsi 

 yellow. Length 2 lines. British Museum. 



Lemipia [Cleridae]. 



Spinola, Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 75. 



Lemidia ca rissim a . 



L. fulvo-testacea, nitida ; elytris laete-viridibus, humeris, fascia media 



apiceque aurantiacis ; tibiis tarsisque posticis nigris. 

 Hah. Australia (Melbourne). 



Shining reddish-testaceous ; elytra bright green, shoulders, band 

 across the middle, and apex rich orange-red ; eyes, tibiae and tarsi 

 black ; throat, meso- and metathorax, and patch on the abdomen brassy- 

 black. Length 3 lines. 



Lem idia inso la ta . 

 L. pallide fulva, breviter setosa ; prothorace nitido ; elytris striato-pune- 



tatis, dense tomentosis ; oculis apiceque mandibularum nigris. 

 Hab. Macassar. 



Pale tawny, covered with short, erect, setose hairs ; head and pro- 

 thorax glossy; scutellum and elytra with a dense opake pale tomentuin, 

 the latter regularly and finely punctured ; eyes and tips of the man- 

 dibles black. Length 5 lines. 



