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apicem clente valiclo curvato armatis ; pedum intermediorum 

 tarsis quam tibiae vix longioribus. Long., 4^ 1. ; lat., 1^1. 

 In the two examples before me the elytra bear a black blotch 

 on the lateral margin close to the base and also a large basal spot 

 of the same colour which includes the scutellum, and sends off 

 several black lines running hindward, and in both examples the 

 suture is black ; in one of them the lateral margin is narrowly 

 piceous, and each elytron bears a large elongate, irregular, black 

 blotch, commencing a good deal in front of the middle and reach- 

 ing a good deal behind the middle, almost touching the suture 

 and well separated from the lateral margin, and also a smaller 

 black spot near the apex ; in the other example there is only one 

 black spot (besides those near the front), which commences at the 

 middle and reaches thence about half way to the apex, and the 

 lateral margin is scarcely infuscate. This species seems to be 

 distinguished from all previously described by the following 

 characters in combination : — Prothorax not longer than wide, 

 elytra strongly punctulate-striate with interstices punctured 

 scarcely less strongly than the striae. The antenna? scarcely 

 differ from those of F. Lacordairei ; the prothorax is at its widest 

 much nearer the middle that in that species ; the elytra are less 

 parallel, being gently narrowed hindward from the base. 



S. Australia ; I am not sure of the exact locality, but believe 

 it to be in the Northern Interior. 



PARACADMUS. 



p. lucifugus, Baly. I have received from Mr. Froggatt, of Sydney, 

 a specimen (said to be from the south of N"ew South Wales) which 

 is certainly, I think, this species — stated by its author to be 

 from "Australia" without more exact mention of habitat. The 

 example before me differs from the description — a very full one — 

 in the following particulars, none of which could rightly be re- 

 garded as justifying specific separation — it is a little larger (long. 

 3 1., instead of 2 J 1.), the intermediate femora (not the hind only) 

 are whitish beneath, the prothorax (which is said to have in the 

 type a few^ small, indistinct, obscurely fulvous spots on either side 

 of the " hinder disc ") has an interrupted flexuous fulvous line 

 running forward from the base on either side, and gradually be- 

 coming indistinct towards the front ; the front angles of the pro- 

 thorax do not to my eye appear to be " curved slightly outw^ard," 

 the elytra behind are somewhat more than " obsoletely " costate, 

 and the dark mark on the second and third ventral segments is 

 wanting. There appears to be little doubt that P. lucifugus, 

 Baly, is Cadmus luctuosus, Chp. ; the latter name being of prior 

 date, the insect should be called Paracadmus luctuosus, Chp. 

 P. macidatus, sp. nov. Sat elongatus; subtus pallide albo-flavus ; 



