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elytrorum sculptura apicem versus paullo minus crassa. 



Long., 2 1. ; lat., f 1. (vix). 

 Var. 1 Prothorace elytrisque (notis flavis exceptis) totis fusco- 



nigris. 

 In the typical form the red and blackish portions of the elytra 

 are separated from each other by the yellow median fascia except 

 close to the lateral margin, where the blackish color is to be 

 traced to some extent in front of the fascia. Differs from 

 M. accincta, Newm. (apart from colour and size) by the median 

 fascia of the elytra being gently arched all across (instead of 

 straight) — its convex side forward— by the apical yellow of the 

 suture extending considerably further forward, by the prothorax 

 being evidently more transverse with a wide well-defined con- 

 vexity down the middle, the external boundary of which is in 

 front, distinctly subcariniform on either side, and by the punctura- 

 tion of the whole upper surface being very evidently coarser and 

 less close. In the dark var. there is no trace of pale coloring 

 along the basal margin of the elytra. 



S. Australia ; under bark of Eucalyptus in the Tumby Scrub, 

 near Port Lincoln. 



PARAPYLUS (gen. no v.). 

 I propose this name for the insect which Mr. Newman 

 described as Pylus bicinctus, and which subsequently was called 

 Necrohia pi7iguis, White. The Rev. H. S. Gorham (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc, 1878) has already discussed the characters of this type, and 

 pointed out the need of a new generic name for it, but without 

 proposing one. 



CROBENIA (gen. nov.). 

 Necrohife affinis, sed oculis subtiliter granulatis, antennarum 

 clava elongata laxe articulata. 

 This genus resembles Necrohia in its four-jointed tarsi with the 

 basal joint covered by the second, in its laterally margined pro- 

 thorax, and in the structure of its palpi, but the eyes are finely 

 granulated and the antennal club is elongate, and consists of 

 three joints, none of which is decidedly transverse. It is dis- 

 tinguished from Paratillus, i7iter alia, by its much less elongate 

 form and different antennal club, from Pylus and Parajrylus by 

 the structure of its tarsi. The name I have used is an anagram 

 of Necrohia. 



C. Eyrensis, sp. nov. Sat nitida ; sparsim albo-hirta ; cyaneo- 

 nigra, antennarum articulo basali prothorace et pedibus 

 rufis ; capite confertim sat crasse protliorace elytrisque 

 crassissime minus confertiiji jj^^^^^^^'tis- I-'Ong., 2 1. ; 

 lat, I 1. 



