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gidion they are scarcely longer than the body, the basal joint being 

 shorter than the third and fourth, which are nearly equal, and the 

 remainder rapidly diminishing. The habit, however, is so similar 

 to Cercegidion, and is in itself so remarkable, that it would be natur- 

 ally inferred that they were not only nearly allied — as in truth they 

 are — but that they were also natives of the same regions. This 

 supposition is, however, doubtful, — Major Parry, to whom this, I be- 

 licve > unique Longicorn belongs, having a note to the effect that it 

 was taken from a box of Mexican insects. Notwithstanding, I can- 

 not help thinking that, like Cercegidion, it is a native of Australia. 



Echthistatus spinosus, (PL XVII. fig. 8.) 

 E. fusco-piceus, sparse pilosus ; protkorace disco subquinquespinoso. 

 Hob. Australia? 



Dark pitchy brown, roughly tuberculate above the interstices, with 

 small patches of short fulvous hairs ; head with a V-shaped impression 

 above the epistome ; prothorax wider than long, the posterior margin 

 narrowest, the side with a strong median spine, surrounded with tuber- 

 cles at its base, the disk with short spines, three of which only are at 

 all prominent, two anterior and one posterior, and behind each of the 

 anterior ones two smaller tubercles ; scutellum quadrate-cordate, con- 

 vex, hairy ; elytra short, broader than the prothorax at its base, pro- 

 minent at the shoulder, thence slightly dilating to one-third its length, 

 and gradually rising above into a large somewhat curved spine, then 

 narrowing rapidly to the apex, which is truncate, with the external 

 angle pointed; legs slightly pubescent, the thighs pitchy, tibiae ob- 

 scurely ringed with white, tarsi brown ; antennas twice as long as the 

 body ; beneath pitchy, with a few dull fulvous hairs. Length (3 lines. 



Seeixia [Lamiidse]. 

 Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 2 ser. iv. p. 45. 



Serixia ornata. (PL XVII. fig. 9.) 

 8. rufo-testacea, sat lata ; elytris griseo-cervinis, macula communi basali 



alteraque pone medium albis. 

 Hub. Moluccas (Batchian). 



Rather broad ; head reddish testaceous, sparingly pubescent ; eyes 

 and mandibles black ; prothorax greyish brown, the sides varied with 

 rufous ; scutellum transverse ; elytra remotely seriate-punctate, pale 

 greyish brown, with a fine silky pubescence, a large and very distinct 

 spot at the base, common to both, and another, on each, behind the 

 middle and towards the side, pure white ; antennas brownish, the third 

 and fourth joints pale at the base; body beneath and legs pale rufous 

 testaceous. Length 4 lines. 



This pretty Longicorn connects my lolea histrio with the more 



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