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attingentibus ; oculis magnis reiiiformibus fortiter granulatis 

 supra subapproximatis, subtus distantibus ; palpis maxil- 

 laribus labialibus sat longioribus. Long., 111.; lat., 3 1. 



The irregular Isevigate central line of the prothorax widens out 

 just behind the middle into a somewhat quadrate space which is 

 scarcely elevated above the general surface. The shape of the 

 prothorax is a little difficult to describe ; this segment is almost 

 equally wide at the base and apex, but immediately behind the 

 apex and in front of the base it suddenly dilates, the sides of this 

 wider portion being scarcely rounded, but diverging slightly hind- 

 w^ard. The sculpture of the prothorax and the somewhat elongate 

 (as compared with the 4th) third joint of the antennae are perhaps 

 hardly consistent with a place in DidymocantlLa, but I do not find 

 any other inconsistent characters. 



Yilgarn, W. Australia ; sent to me by C. French, Esq. 



DEMONASSA MACLEAYI, PctSC, 



There can hardly be a doubt that this is identical with Lamia 

 dichotoma, Newm. ; as the latter is the older name the synonomy 

 will stand thus : — 



Demonassa dichotoma, Newm. Zool. App., 1851, p. 179 [La7nia 

 ( Symphyletes J\. 



D. Macleayi, Pasc. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1859., p. 32 (Zygocera). 



D. funeraria, Thoms. Syst. Ceramb., 1864, p. 328. 



SYMPHYLETES. 



S. modestus, sp. nov. Obscure ferrugineus, pube grisea umbrina 

 aurantiacaque vestitus; prothorace antice angustato, supra 

 bituberculato ; elytris sat elongatis, distincte punctulatis, 

 apice subemarginatis dense hirsutis, parte antica fere dimidia 

 (praesertim latera versus) sparsim sat fortiter granulatis. 

 Long. 7 1. ; lat., 2f 1. 



The derm is of a dull ferruginous, or neutral, tint, becoming a 

 little brighter in the hinder half of the elytra and on the under- 

 side. The labrum is almost testaceous. The vestiture of the face 

 consists of a dense mixture of rather long fulvous and grey pubes- 

 cence. On the top of the head and on the prothorax the pubes- 

 cence is dark-brown, mottled with orange. On the elytra a com- 

 mon triangular space (limited by the base and a line from each 

 shoulder to a point on the suture situated at a distance from the 

 base equal to a little more than a quarter of the length of the 

 suture) is concolorous with the prothorax, or even a little darker ; 

 immediately behind this, on each elytron, another sj^ace (inde- 

 finedly triangular, limited behind by a line running from the 

 suture at the apex of the dark basal common triangle to the lateral 



