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pedibiis (femoribus et tibiarum basi siimma flavis exceptis) 

 et antennis (articulis 6-9 flavis exceptjs) nigris ; supra niger ; 

 clypeo, labro, protlioracis marginibus (basi excepta) et 

 utrinque vittalata antice abbreviata, in elytris singulis maculis 

 discoidalibus 3 longitudinaliter positis (maculis intermediis 

 quam cetenB majoribus), et elytrorum margine retlexo antice, 

 hiete flavis ; capite creberrime rugulose subtilius, protliorace 

 elytrisque crassissime rugulose, punctulatis ; his j^ostice sub- 

 costatis ; antennis corpore sat longioribus. Long., 2^ 1. ; 

 lat., 1| 1. 

 Australia ; exact habitat unknown ; a single example in the 

 South Australian Museum. 



PRIOXOPLEURA. 



P. crucicoUis, Boisd, This is an extraordinarily variable species. 

 I have before me a series which I obtained all together by sweeping 

 Euccdyphis, and which unite P. Jiavocincta, Saund., with it, and go 

 even beyond that variety to a form having the elytra almost en- 

 tirely black, each bearing a large yellow spot. This latter* placed 

 beside an ordinary specimen looks as if its markings are essentially 

 different, but intermediate forms differ from typical crucicoUis 

 through a series in which the first departure varies only by the 

 portion of the elytra lying between the two transverse series of 

 black marks being slightly paler than the rest of the surface, and 

 this pale portion in other specimens becomes still more conspicu- 

 ous, and finally yellowish and bright yellow, while the black 

 marks correspondingly unite together and overspread the part of 

 the surface that is not yellow. 



Cadmus cinnamomeus, Suff., is given by Gemminger and Harold 

 as the female of P. flavocincta, Saund, I have never seen a 

 specimen quite agreeing with Suffrian's type, which should have 

 no markings at all on the prothorax, and therefore I am perhaps 

 hardly justified in expressing a decided opinion, but it seems to 

 me very probable that this also is a variety of crucicoUis. 



P. erudita, sp. nov. $ Minus elongata ; subquadrata ; supra 

 ferruginea ; capitis vertice et linea longitudinali antice bifur- 

 cata, prothoracis macula literam U simulanti et utrinque 

 maculis aliis indeterminatis, scutello, et elytrorum maculis 

 nonnullis fascias 2 (alteram pone basit. alteram pone medium) 

 interruptas formantibus, nigris vel nigro-piceis ; corpore 

 subtus pedibusque la^te flavis, metasterni macula triangulari, 

 femoribus tibiisque maculatim et tarsis, nigris ; antennis 

 gracilibus rufis, articulis basalibus 2 ultimoque nigris ; 



* Probably Cadmus bimaculatus, Dey. (never, I think, formally de- 

 Bcribed), which SufiFriau speaks of as a var. of flavocincta. 



