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IIAPTONCURA. 



11. Virforientti^; sp. nov. Ovalis ; pubescens ; testacea, pro- 

 thoracis disco utriuque, antennarum articulis ultimis 4 vel 

 5 vel 6, et elytrorum disco, infuscatis ; confertissime minus 

 subtiliter punctulata ; prothorace quam longiori duplo 

 latiori, antrorsum angustato, antice leviter emarginato, 

 lateribus alj apice ad basin gradatim magis late reflexo- 

 marginatis, angulis posticis bene determinatis retrorsum 

 subproductis. Long., If 1. — 1|1. ; lat., | — f 1. 



This species lias entirely the facies of an European Epimeay 

 but clearly belongs, I think, to the genus (or subgenus) 

 JlajJtoncura. Its pubescence and puncturation scarcely differ 

 from the same in E. jmsiUa, Hbst. Compared with that species 

 it is much less elongate and parallel (more like E. deleta, Er., in 

 outline), with the sides of the prothorax much less widely re- 

 tiexed (especially in front), the elytra less widely margined, tibiae 

 with apical spines, ka. 



Of Australian Haptoncurfp, no doubt impericdis, Reitt, is its 

 nearest ally. I have not, so far as I know, seen that species (the 

 exact habitat of which is not known), but it evidently differs from 

 it in many characters, of which I may specify the puncturation 

 no doubt much stronger (imperialis is said to be " subtilissime 

 punctulata"), the front of the prothorax less strongly emarginate, 

 t^'c. The colours and markings, too, are evidently difierent, the 

 prothorax having in imperialis on either side a black discal vitta, 

 abbreviated in front ; this species an elongate blotch (often al- 

 most obsolete), not more abbreviated in front than behind ; the 

 elytra in typical specimens of imperialis having (among other 

 markings) a large common triangular, basal, dark spot. Of the 

 present species I have seen nothing like this in any specimen, but 

 ordinarily there is a large dark spot occupying the greater part of 

 the disc of each elytron, nearly reaching the suture and lateral 

 margin, and widely separated from the base and apex. This spot 

 is liable to be altogether wanting (rarely), or extended over the 

 whole elytron, except the lateral margin. The females are pro- 

 portionally much broader and more robust than the males. 



Victoria ; on flowers in the Alpine district. 



//. Linde7isis, sp. nov. Ovalis ; pubescens ; testacea vel rufa ; 

 elytris maculatim et corpore subtus, plus minus infuscatis ; 

 leviter (in prothorace sat crebre in elyti'is magis sparsim) 

 punctulata; prothorace quam longiori vix duplo latiori, an- 

 trorsum sat angustato, antice subbisinuato, lateribus aiigus- 

 tissime reHexo-marginatis, angulis posticis sat rotundatis. 

 Long., I— IH. ; lat., |— | 1. 



Tliis little species is evidently closely allied to JJ. Idipntaiia, 



