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previously recorded by name as Australian) taken in produce that 

 was probably imported. I suspect, however, that this is in reality 

 the insect wliich figures in Masters' "Catalogue" as L. testacetiSj 

 Fab. According to Dr. Erichson (Ins. Deutsch. III., pp. 320 and 

 321) the species which Fabricius described as Cucujus testaceus 

 is a L(rni()phf(fus (occurring under tlie bark of trees in Germany), 

 quite distinct from the cosmopolitan Cuciijiis pusilhis of Schon- 

 herr, which lives on rice and other dry produce ; but the latter 

 was mistaken for the former by Stephens (Illust. Br. Ent. Maud. 

 IV., p. 224), where it figures erroneously as C. testaceus, Fab. 

 Dr. Erichson is confirmed in his statement by De Marseul in his 

 Catalogue of European Cohoptpra, and also by Gemminger and 

 Harold. The insect now before me should, therefore, stand thus 

 in our catalogue— 



L.E:\ropnL(Eus (cucujus) pusillus, Schon. 



L. (Cuciijus) testacen>>^ Steph. (nee Fabr.). 



I have not been able to ascertain on what authority L. testaceus^ 



Fabr., is placed in Masters' Catalogue, and therefore I am, of 



course, unable to state positively that the German insect has not 



been found in Australia, but I should think it very improbable. 



CLERID^. 



NATALIS. 



N. hirta, sp. nov. Angusta ; subcylindrica ; pilis sat longis 

 erectis dense vestita ; ferruginea ; oculis fortiter convexis, 

 minoribus ; elytris antice minus fortiter (postice gradatim 

 subtilius) cancellato -punctulatis, interstitiis antice latis 

 planatis alternis mox pone basin gradatim angustioribus 

 carinatis. Long., 9 1. ; lat. 2| 1. 

 A narrow convex species thickly clothed with erect hairs over 

 the whole upper surface and the legs. The elytra are very pecu- 

 liarly sculptured. The punctures in the rows are much smaller 

 than in X. porcata, Fab., the interstices between the rows of 

 punctures being even at the base quite as wide as the individual 

 punctures in the rows ; at the extreme base all the interstices 

 (though fiat) are a little raised, but at a very short distance be- 

 hind the base the alternate interstices disappear altogether (or — 

 more exactly — cease to be in the least degree elevated) while the 

 others become narrower and more cariniform ; in the apical half 

 the sculpture of each elytron consists of four costa3 (exclusive of 

 the suture and the lateral margins), close to which on either side 

 is a row of square punctures — the space between the first and 

 second rows being perfectly flat, and not in the least elevated, 

 that between the second and third strongly costate, and so on. 

 The head and prothorax are very similar to those of X. semicostata, 

 Blackb. (the latter being evidently wider, and more dilated later- 



