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of S. ruficoUis : but it is impossible to be certain on the point. 

 The description, however, is so deplorably useless that I think 

 :Sometliing will be gained by this Victorian form being described, 

 even at the risk of its proving, sooner or later, to be identical 

 ^^•ith the Queensland one ; I am unable to specify any very pre- 

 <?ise difference between the two forms, except that the specimen 

 before me is a little smaller than S. ruficoUis is stated to be, and 

 tliat the elytra do not seem to be " shorter than those of 

 S. Ericlisoni,'' which (according to Dr. Kraatz) are " not quite a 

 third longer than the prothorax." I do not possess a type of 

 /S'. Ericlisoni, tlie habitat of which is thus stated by Dr. Kraatz, 

 " (Occurs) rarely in Central and Southern Germany." Some 

 named forms occurring in France and Italy are recorded by Dr. 

 Kraatz as varieties of EricJiSoni. 



^S. ckibius, sp. nov. Subnitidus ; minus depressus ; jDube sub- 

 tilissima vestitus ; piceus, antennis prothorace abdominis 

 apice elytrisque obscure rufis (his apicem versus dilutioribus), 

 pedibus testaceis ; alutaceus, vix manifeste punctulatus ; 

 capite quadrato, prothorace latiori ; hoc oblongo, basi mani- 

 feste biimpresso, supra linea mediana obsoleta sat nitida 

 instructo ; elytris jjrothorace latioribus, tertia parte lon- 

 gioribus. Long., Ifl. ; lat., -\1. 



That part of the head which would be cut off Ijeliind a straiglit 

 line passing across the front of the eyes is as nearly as possible 

 an exact square — though with the angles of tlie said square 

 rounded. None of the joints of the antenni>3 are transverse. 



Besides >S'. ruficoUis, FvL, >S'. digitalis, Fvl. and Jatehricola, 

 Blackb. have been described from Australia ; of these the foi'mer 

 lias blackish or piceous tibife, and the latter is a smaller and less 

 nitid insect with a longer head, etc. 



S. ohscuripennis, sp. nov. Minus nitidus ; minus depressus; pube 

 sat subtili vestitus ; piceus, antennis palpis prothorace ab- 

 dominis apice elytrorum apice pedibusque plus minus rufls 

 \e\ rufescentibus ; crebre subtilissime fere asperatim punc- 

 tulatus ; capite sat (juadrato, quam prothorax parum latiori ; 

 hoc oblongo, basi subfortiter biimpresso, inter impressiones 

 fere carinato, linea mediana elevata hand hevi vix manifeste 

 notato : elytris prothorace parum latioribus, hoc nullo modo 

 longioribus. Long., 1|1. ; lat., y\l. (vix). 



Very distinct from the preceding, on account of its much 

 shorter elytra and decidedly more defined puncturation ; the an- 

 tennae and tarsi, moreover, seem to be a little stoutei-, and the 

 general appearance is duller and more obscure. The colours vary 

 ^ little, tlie lighter parts in some examples being more decidedly 

 red than in other examples ; in some tlie elytra are of a nearly 



