Qmtra emcj Spwiti p/Ooleopterai 389 



joint u long ns the wsi together; body beneath with a pale-greyish 

 pile, Length LO lines. 



Tliii crescent-shaped series of short crests on the prothorax will 

 readily distinguish this speoiesj the hairs on the elytra appear to 

 be verj deciduous, and are generally rubbed off the more prominent 



portions. 



BniPHi i.ii'i's | Lamiidn |. 

 Now mini, Entomol, i». 862. 



SynyphyUtta pwMtx nfrit. 



x suboylindrious, pube oinerasoente fulvaqua vastus; alytrorum lateribua 

 maoulls duabus albisj maris abdominis legmento seoundo ampliato, 

 densisstme hirsutOi 



Baft. Australia (Kangaroo Wand). 



Suboj liiuiric.'ii, iiiiu-K, oovered with a short, verj pale ashy pile, varied 

 with light fulvous, and spotted with ooarse black punotures) head 

 rather aarrow, the vertea verj oonvex ; antennas nearly equal In both 

 exes, n"i 10 long as the body, dark brown, no( spotted, and very 

 slightly ciliated beneath ; prothorax nearly equal In length and breadth, 

 the anterior margin soaroelj aarrower than t h<« posterior, the side a little 

 rounded, although Irregularly, the disk with the two usual shallow 

 transverse depressions; soutellum subtiiangular, rounded posteriorly; 

 elytra subparallel, the apex entire, several blaoL shining granules 

 arranged in Irregular rows, and extending to near the apex, two white 

 Irregular spots on each side partially margined w m i > dark In-own; legs 

 nnii body beneath oovered with r similar varied pile; the seoond abdo- 

 minal segment In the mule larger than In the female, and densely 

 oovered with short ereol hairs. Length 8 lines. 



A more oylindrioal speoies than most others of this genus, In 

 general oolour approaching 8. frontioomia, Fab. : I'nt the two white 



BpOtS 011 (lie sides of the rl\tra will re;ulil\ distinguish It. The 



peculiar struoture oi* t h«> second abdominal segment Is verj rarely 

 met with among the Longioorns, and appears to be oonflned to the 

 males. There li nothing to distinguish SymphyUtoa from Tthytiphora, 

 Berv., except that the latter has not the lateral tooth on the protho 

 rax, which generally oharaoteriies the former j the last joint of the 

 antenna), u apvn rspsnfsourvato,' 1 which Newman gives ss a oharaoter, 

 is onl] found In two or three speoies. How RmfAsa, Lap., li to i>« 

 distinguished 1 don't Know : It las stouter form, with shorter mid 

 more robust legs, than either SymphyUtuoi Rhytiphora, My Pmthea 

 oonftrta (Aru), from Its toothed mesosternum and absenoe of anten 

 ii.ii 'j tubercles, musl be excluded from the genus. Perhaps it should 

 beplaoed near Ooptopt, Berv. The spine on the anterior ooxsa of the 



