120 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or liltle-hiown 



both from the figure and the description, I think that it is also allied 

 to Erichson's Latometus*. 



Elascus crassicomis. (PI. YII. fig. 7.) 



E. subdepressus, fuscescenti-varius ; antennis medio abrupte inerassatis. 



Hub. Australia (Melbourne). 



Bather broadly depressed, covered with coarse, curly, dusky-brown 

 hairs varied with paler or greyish markings ; head and prothorax grey- 

 ish-brown, the latter with four tubercles on its disc and the projecting 

 anterior portion strongly bilobed ; elytra bordered with hooked hairs, 

 with three waved costae on each, terminating posteriorly in as many 

 tubercles, between which and the apex is another and larger one, a 

 small oblique stripe behind the shoulder aud a broad band near the 

 apex ; antennae greyish-brown, the terminal half darker, with the third 

 joint much thicker than the two preceding, the fourth and succeeding 

 joints gradually diminishing in thickness ; legs dark brown ; body be- 

 neath pitchy, with yellowish-brown scaly hairs. Length 3 lines. 



I have only seen two specimens, both of which were taken by 

 Mr. Bakewell, at Melbourne, under the hark of trees composing a 

 stock-yard fence. 



Elascus lunatus. (PI. VII. fig. 8.) 



E. subangustatus, fuscus, nigro-varius ; elytris albo-fasciatis. 



Hub. Australia (Melbourne). 



Rather narrow, slightly depressed, covered with coarse scaly hairs, 

 which are yellowish -grey on the head, but considerably darker on the 

 prothorax and elytra, or nearly black, the latter having three whitish 

 bands (the two anterior crescent-shaped, but sometimes nearly coales- 

 cing, the posterior straight) ; prothorax with four tubercles on its disc, 

 the anterior projecting portion rather broadly bilobed, each lobe form- 

 ing (so to speak) an additional tubercle ; elytra coarsely seriato-punc- 

 tate, each with three costae, the inner nearly obsolete except at the 

 base ; antennae not abruptly thickened in the middle, yellowish varied 

 with dark brown, especially the three terminal joints; legs ferruginous, 

 more or less marked with dark brown ; body beneath covered with 

 greyish-yellow scaly hairs. Length 2^ lines. 



The post-prothoracic lobe is less developed in this species than in 

 the former, or, in other words, it is broader and less abruptly de- 

 fined. The two specimens (also captured by Mr. Bakewell) now 

 before me differ considerably in depth of colour and amount of white 

 on the elyt.ra ; but in this, as in other instances, the pattern is the 

 same. 



» Wiagmann'e Archiv, 18-12, p. 213. pi. b. fig. 3. 



