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A species presenting an extremely intricate mixture of reddish 

 ferruginous and black colouring, the black usually shading off* 

 vaguely into piceous and here and there inclining to reddish. It 

 is probably allied to C. pallida. Bates, but differs not only in 

 colour (especially in the variegated antennse) but also in the 

 puncturation of several parts, notably the interstices of the 

 elytra which in Mr. Bates' species are said to be " rather closely 

 punctured," while in the present species the punctures on the 

 interstices are about as sparse as they could well be. The 

 antennae are somewhat slender, not at all serrate, the third joint 

 not much shorter than the fourth and fifth together. 



Victoria ; in the collection of C. French, Esq. ■ 



C. rufipennisy sp. nov. Minus elongata ; minus parallela ; postice 

 angustata ; sat nitida ; nigra, elytris rufis (margine summo 

 laterali nigro) sat dense sericeo-pubescentibus ;. capita 

 crassius crebrius punctulato ; oculis inter se remotis ; pro- 

 thorace quam longiori vix latiori, antice paullo angustato, 

 ante basin fovea mediana rotundata magna profunda in- 

 structo, sat crebre sat fortiter punctulato, lateribus vix 

 arcuatis, angulis posticis fere rectis ; elytris punctulato- 

 striatis, interstitiis (alternis quam cetera magis fortiter) con- 

 vexis crebre punctulatis. 



A very distinct species, suggestive by its colours — and to some 

 extent by its form — of some vars. of Stenoderus suturalis, Oliv. 

 The antennae are moderately stout, the intermediate joints a little 

 dilated within so as to present a sliglitly serrated appearance ; 

 the third joint is considerably longer than the fourth. 

 Victoria. 



PSEUDOCISTELA (gen. nov.). 

 Caput antice sat productum; mandibular apice acumiilatae, haud 

 bifida?; palporum maxillarium articulus secundus brevis 

 robustus ; apicalis latissime (fere ut Metistetis), labialium 

 leviter, triangularis; oculi haud approximati; antennae sat 

 (vix minus quam A7iaxo) robust^e sat elongata?; prothorax 

 transversus a basi antrorsum fortiter rotundatimangustatus; 

 corpus ovale, alatum. 



The little Cistelid for which I propose this name cannot, I 

 think, be referred to any previously characterised genus. Its 

 oval form distinguishes it from most, if not all, of the genera 

 having the head produced into a beak, and the mandibles simply 

 pointed. In Lacordaire's arrangement it would fall into the 

 *■'■ groupe Cistelides vraies." The sexual differences seem to be 

 very slight ; the males are somewhat narrower and more attenuated 

 behind, with the antennae more slender (but scarcely longer) than 

 those of the female, and the intercostal process of the hind body 



