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middle line. In the male, the front tarsi have their basal joint 

 triangular and strongly dilated, joints 2 and 3 dilated, but suc- 

 cessively less so ; joint 4 is very small, 5 oval and dilated as long 

 as the preceding three together ; joint 5 bears at its apex three 

 unequal claws, of which one (the longest) is inserted immediately 

 before the apex, and is strongly curved and scarcely shorter than 

 the apical joint of the tarsus, while the other two are at the apex 

 and are much shorter — one shorter than the other. The inter- 

 mediate tarsi of the male are considerably longer than the front, 

 and scarcely shorter than the hind, ones ; these four posterior 

 tarsi scarcely differ inter se, except that the basal joint of the in- 

 termediate is evidently dilated. In both pairs, joints 1 and 5 are 

 of equal length, and each as long as joints 2-4 (which are sub- 

 equal inter se) together. The claws are obtusely subdentate at 

 the base. The spines on the front tibia? are fine and inconspicu- 

 ous ; those on the four posterior strong and well defined. All the 

 tibiae are bispinose at the apex. The female scai'cely differs from 

 the male, except in having the anterior four tarsi and the front 

 claws simple. 



The superficial sculpture of the insect on which I am founding 



this genus is very unusual, and extremely like that of 



Catops australis, Er. I have examples of the latter species (or a 



very close ally of it) in my collection and, notwithstanding this 



curious resemblance, find that it cannot be associated generically 



w4th this new form ; it appears to me to be a true Cholera. 



C. picta^ sp. nov. Sat late ovalis ; parce pubescens ; nigra, an- 



tennarum basi, prothorace antice et latera versus, elytrorum 



maculis nonimllis, pedisbusque, plus minus testaceis vel 



rufis ; prothorace minus crebre granulato, fortiter transverso 



antice fortiter angustato, angulis posticis retrorsum vix pro- 



ductis; elytris crebre transversim punctulato-striatis, stria 



suturali sat fortiter impressa. Long., If 1. ; lat., ^\. 



The pale markings on the elytra are not at all strongly defined 



in themselves, but are rendered conspicuous by their being clothed 



wdth golden pubescence ; they consist of a large humeral blotch, 



a smaller common spot on the suture some distance behind the 



scutellum, two smaller spots on the front part of the disc, and an 



irregular narrow fascia of zigzag form about the middle. In some 



examples some of the markings are wanting. 



Victoria ; among fallen leaves on the higher mountains 

 (Feathertop, etc.). 



SCAPHIDIID.^. 



SCAPHIDIUM. 



S. alpicoJa, sp. nov. Nitidum ; nigrum ; prothorace (margine 

 basali et maculis 2 discoidalibus ante medium positis nigris 



