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numerosis tiljiis intus tarsis et mandibulis rufis ; pro thoracis 

 angulis posterioribus uiarginatis ; elytris creberrime minus 

 subtiliter sat aspere punctulatis, sat perspicue striatis. 

 Long., 2 1. ; lat., 1 1. 



The markings on the elytra are well defined and intricate ; 

 they consist of an irregular red lateral border scarcely reaching 

 the base or apex ; from this a branch runs oft* behind the shoulder 

 towards the suture, which on the middle of the disc turns upward 

 and reaches the base, along which it runs a short distance towards 

 the scutellum, and then turns down again, running somewhat 

 parallel to (and close beside) the suture to about a third the length 

 of the elytron ; the red lateral margin gives oft* another branch 

 behind its middle, which runs obliquely forward almost to the 

 hind extremity of the front branch, and is in the form of two 

 triangles having their apices directed hindward and their bases in 

 a continuous line ; between this hind branch and the apex there 

 is an elongate red spot. 



This species is extremely like the European //. marginatu.s, 

 Fab. Compared with that insect it is a little narrower and less 

 robust, with prothorax scarcely so strongly punctulate and elytra 

 very evidently striate. The puncturation of the elytra is scarcely 

 different. The prothorax is a little more narrowed both in front 

 and l^ehind, and has more strongly rounded sides, but is scarcely 

 less transverse. 



Compared with //. Flindersi, Blackb., this insect has much 

 more closely punctulate elytra, while from //. Australasio^y 

 Waterh., and H. muhimaculatics, Blackb., it differs inte7' alia in 

 not having the elytra perceptibly narrowed behind the shoulders. 



Victoria ; Alpine district. 



//. indistincfus, sp. nov. Elongato-oblongus ; minus nitidus ; 

 griseo-pubescens ; piceo-niger, prothoracis lateribus elytrorum 

 notis numerosis tibiis intus tarsis femoribus et mandibulis 

 pallide testaceis ; prothoracis angulis posterioribus margina- 

 tis ; elytris vix perspicue striatis, crebre sat subtiliter vix 

 aspere punctulatis. Long., 2 — 2^ 1. ; lat., y\j — 1 1. 



This species is undoubtedly very close to the preceding, but I 

 cannot regard it as a mere variety. 



The markings on the elytra, from some points of view, are en- 

 tirely concealed by the pubescence ; ti.ey are as follows on each 

 elytron : — A marginal band widely continued to both base and 

 apex, which is dilated in a kind of blotch scarcely in front of the 

 middle, and again immediately behind the middle ; two elongate 

 spots almost side by side on the disc a little in front of the middle ; 

 a spot of variable form (bifid in some examples) on the disc just 

 behind the middle (in some examples this spot is connected with 



