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in the declivous lateral portion of the segment. The antennae set 

 back reach a little beyond the base of the prothorax ; they are 

 very stout, the basal joint the stoutest, the second short, the third 

 about twice as long as wide (equal in length to the first), the 

 fourth a little shorter, the fifth and following joints (except the 

 last, which is nearly twice as long) each about equal to the third. 



I am doubtful of the sex of my example of this insect, but the 

 long apical joint of the antennae and the lobe-like production of 

 the basal joint of the front tarsi on the inner side are perhaps 

 likely to be characteristic of the male. 



Victoria ; Alpine district. 



LONGICORNES. 



PHACOD^S. 



P. ralidus, sp. nov. Brunneus in partibus nonnuUis cinereo- 

 pubescens ; prothorace sat transverso, sparsim a^qualiter 

 (nisi disco postice) granulato, disco postice spatiis nitidis 

 subelevatis obscure notato, lateribus aequaliter sat fortiter 

 rotundatis ; elytris pone medium cinereo-fasciatis, apice 

 spina elongata acuta armatis, sparsim sat a^qualiter tuber- 

 culis parvis obtusis ornatis, antice fortiter rugulose postice 

 minus perspicue punctulatis ; antennis (maris ?) quam corpus 

 longioribus, subtus piloso-ciliatis, parte apicali rufescenti, 

 articulo 3"^ quam 4^^* fere dimidio longiori ; pedibus cinereo- 

 pubescentibus maculis parvis nudis ornatis ; corpore subtus 

 maculatim brunneo-cinereoque-pubescenti. Long., 13^ 1. ; 

 lat., 33 1. 



A large and distinct species with a thin ashy pilosity over the 

 whole upper surface ; this ashy pilosity becomes in parts so dense 

 as entirely to conceal the general sculpture (saving that the 

 granules and tubercles protrude through it). Tlie dense pubes- 

 cence covers the head, the prothorax (except the hinder parts of 

 the middle of the disc), the scutellum, the shoulders, and the 

 apex of the elytra, and forms a transverse fascia a little behind 

 the middle of the elytra ; the pilosity near the hinder part of the 

 lateral margin is also a little more dense than on the general 

 surface, so that the fascia and apical pilosity are indistinctly 

 connected laterally, and in that part the derm is of a somewhat 

 reddish tone. 



Compared with P. ohscurus, Fab., this species is evidently 

 larger and of stouter and more robust appearance, with much 

 stouter antenna:" (thin apical spines traceable quite to the eighth 

 or ninth joint), densest parts of the pubescence much more dense, 

 tubercles on elytra smaller and more numerous, apical spines of 

 elytra very much longer and more developed, the third joint of 



