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brevibus sat dense vestita; rufa, elytris ad latera vitta 

 picea ab humeris retrorsum gradatim latiori ornatis ; capite 

 fortiter sat crebre punctulato ; oculis sat approximatis ; 

 prothorace quam longiori parum latiori, fortiter minus crebre 

 punctulato, baud vel vix canaliculato, ante basin in medio 

 late leviter utrinque oblique sat fortiter impresso, abasi 

 antrorsum sinuatim angustato, basi bisinuata, angulis 

 posticis subacutis vix extrorsum directis ; elytris sat fortiter 

 sat crebre punctulatis, punctulato striatis, puncturis in striis 

 et in interstitiis inter se sat sequalibus ; antennis quam 

 corporis dimidium paullo longioribus, articulo 3° quam 4*^' 

 subbreviori ; corpore subtus sat fortiter punctulato. Long., 

 3f— 4i 1. ; lat., 1— U 1. 



The sexual differences in this species seem very slight. The 

 hind-body of the male is much narrower and more convex trans- 

 versely than that of the female, and the eyes in the same sex are 

 perhaps a trifle more approximated ; in both sexes the interval 

 between the eyes is very much less wide than either eye as seen 

 from above. The colours and markings of this species are con- 

 siderably like those of an Apellatus. The vitta on each elytron 

 dilates hind ward to the extent of filling up the apical portion 

 but (in all the examples I have seen) leaves the suture and 

 margin narrowly red. 



V^ictoria ; Alpine district. 



H. rufa, sp. nov. Modice elongata ; sat parallela ; sat convexa ; 

 minus nitida; pilis erectis sat brevibus densius vestita; rufa, 

 antennis pedibus abdomineque plus minusve dilutioribus, 

 nonnuUis exemplis capite obscuriori ; hoc fortiter sat crebre 

 punctulato ; oculis subapproximatis ; prothorace quam 

 longiori fere sesqui latiori, late vix perspicue canaliculato, 

 ante basin utrinque obscure impresso, crebre fortiter punctu- 

 lato, antice quam postice paullo angustiori, lateribus sat 

 rotundatis, basi leviter bisinuata, angulis posticis obtusis ; 

 elytris crebre subfortiter punctulatis, leviter striatis ; 

 antennis quam corporis du8e partes paullo longioribus, 

 articulis 4-10 (pra^sertim 4) leviter com^Dressis intus sub- 

 serratis, 3° quam 4"^^ paullo breviori ; corpore subtus sparsim 

 minus fortiter punctulato, segmento ultimo ventrali late 

 longitudinaliter impresso. Long., 34 1. ; lat., 1 1. — 11 1. 

 (vix). 



A puzzling species, very unlike H. carhonaria, Germ., but in 

 almost every point of difference connected with it by intermediate 

 species. The third antennal joint shorter than the fourth (for 

 example) is certainly suggestive of generic distinction, but this 

 insect cannot, I think, be separated generically from H. fusca, in 



