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Mesolita transversa. (PI. XVII. f. 7.) 



31. pubescens, fuliginosa, scutello elytrisque basi cinereis, his fascia trans- 

 versa lunata apicern versus alba. 



Hah. Queensland. 



Pubescent, smoky brown ; bead nearly quadrate in front ; protborax 

 broadly ovate, its posterior margin narrowest ; scutellum rather large, 

 triangidar, cinereous ; elytra contracted at the base, gradually swelling 

 out above and at the sides, attaining its greatest size at rather within 

 two-thirds their length, the basal portion dull cinereous, separated from 

 the rest by a sharply angled or zigzag line, a crescent-shaped white 

 band on the posterior third, the apex simply acuminate ; legs rather 

 robust ; femora slender at the base ; the tibia? slightly ciliated internally, 

 the intermediate and posterior tibire also ciliated externally at the apex ; 

 body beneath pitchy, with a greyish pubescence ; antennae with the 

 fourth to the seventh joints inclusive cinereous at the base. Length 

 2^ lines. 



Mesolita Uneolata. 



31. pubescens, fusca, auro lineolata ; elytris basi granulatis ; antennis 

 ferrugineis. 



Hub. Queensland. 



Dark brown, pubescent ; head in front somewhat transverse, epistome 

 and lip rusty brown, eye bordered with pale-yellowish hairs ; protborax 

 very slightly contracted at the base and anteriorly, its disk with four 

 yellow linear spots (placed ; ;), and another on each side ; scutellum 

 triangular, dull yellow ; elytra contracted at the base, the largest portion 

 at about two-thirds the length, with several fine, golden-yellow, inter- 

 rupted lines, the apex spined ; legs rather robust, femora less clavate, 

 but the tibiae ciliated as in the last ; body beneath pitchy ; antennas 

 and palpi ferruginous. Length 5 lines. 



CALLiDnnr [Cerambycidse]. 

 Fabricius, Syst. Entom. p. 187 (1775). 



Callidium inscriptum. 



C. testaceum nigio pictum, parce pilosum; prothorace breviter ovato, 

 postice constricto ; elytris dense punctatis, nigro fasciatis ; femoribus 

 clavatis, ferrugineis, basi pallidis. 



Hub. Queensland. 



Testaceous, varied with black, with long, scattered, very pale hairs ; 

 head short, slightly ferruginous, a darker patch on the vertex; eyes 

 large, black ; palpi ferruginous ; tips of the mandibles black ; antenna? 

 longer than the body, the two basal joints entirely, the remainder at 

 the apex, ferruginous ; prothorax shortly ovate, contracted behind, very 

 minutely punctured, a short black dash on each side at the base ; scu- 



