125 



capite prothorace sternisque plus minus infuscatis ; elytris 

 apice rotundatis, puncturis quaclratis seriatim instructis 

 interstitiis vix elevatis. Long., 5| — 6 1. ; lat., 1| — 1-| 1. 



The sculpture of the head is close and confused, consisting of 

 large and small punctures and numerous stria-like wrinkles much 

 mixed together ; that of the prothorax (which is distinctly longer 

 than wide) is almost as in N. porcata but much less rugulose on 

 the sides. The rows of punctures on the elytra are almost as in 

 JSf. forcata : the interstices between the rows of punctures are 

 almost flat, the alternate interstices however from some points of 

 view appearing not quite so flat as the rest. 



The long, closely set, erect hairs clothing the whole surface 

 and the legs will at once distinguish this species from nearly all 

 its described congeners. It difiers from N. hirta by the absence 

 of elytral carinte and from constricta by the elytra much wider 

 than the prothorax, the prothorax longer than wide, &c., etc. 



S. Australia ; I do not know the exact habitat. 



iV^. fasciata, sp. nov. Sat elongata ; minus convexa ; minus 

 pubescens ; ferruginea vel ferrugineo-picea elytris mox post 

 medium obscure pallide fasciatis, oculis sat magnis modice 

 convexis ; antennarum articulo ultimo sat elongato apice 

 obtuse acuminato, 10° manifesto (9° vix evidenter) trans- 

 verso ; prothorace quam longioii haud latiori, subfortiter 

 minus crebre duplo-punctulato, lateribus pone medium sat 

 fortiter rotundato-ampliatis, parte ampliata crassissime 

 rugulosa ; elytris crasse cancellato-punctulatis, puncturis 

 postice obsoletescentibus, interstitiis alternis postice plus 

 minus carinatis ; femoribus posticis minus gracilibus minus 

 elongatis. Long., 8— lOJ 1. ; lat. 21— 3^ 1. 



This species is near JV. j^o^xata, Fab., from which it differs inter 

 alia in the strong lateral dilatation of the prothorax behind the 

 middle, in the much greater prominence of the alternate inter- 

 stices of the elytra as compared with the other interstices in the 

 hinder part, in the presence of a distinctly apparent (though 

 faint) fascia of a pallid colour running across the elytra immedi- 

 ately behind the middle, and in the puncturation of the ventral 

 segments, which is of two different systems, one consisting of fine 

 close punctures, the other of rather closely packed strong squamose 

 punctures — much as in A^. hirta. The puncturation on the pro- 

 thorax also consists of fine and coarser punctures intermingled, 

 but it should be noted that this puncturation is much less close 

 and rugulose than on the prothorax of JS'. cribricollis, Spin. In 

 one of the examples before me the fifth ventral segment is quite 

 strongly, almost semi-circularly, emarginate all across its apical 

 border ; in the other example this segment is sub-bisinuately 



