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appended segment ; the dorsal surface of the abdomen is, more- 

 over, distinctly more nitid than in the other specimen. 



N. Queensland (given to me by Mr. Koebele). 



Ji. kemblensis, sp. nov. Sat elongatus ; sat latus ; minus con- 



vexus ; pubescens ; sat parallelus ; brunneus vel brunneo- 



testaceus, capite prothorace ^^lateribus exceptis) et elytrorum 



dimidia parte postica varie quam ceterse partes plus minusve 



obscurioribus ; capite crebre fortiter, prothorace fortiter 



minus crebre, abdomine minus crebro minus fortiter, punc- 



tulatis ; prothorace transverso, antice modice angustato 



parum emarginato, marginibus lateralibus baud ciliatis, 



angulis anticis obtusis posticis rectis haud retrorsum incli- 



natis, lateribus leviter arcuatis, elytris quam prothorax sub- 



latioribus circiter tertia parte longioribus (femina3 quam 



maris paullo longioribus), abdominis segmentum 2'^°' vix 



tegentibus, punctulato - striatis, interstitiis planatis vix 



prominentibus minus perspicue punctulatis. 



Maris abdominis segento 5" ad apicem truncato, 6° bene per- 



spicuo transverso ; femin?e segmento 5" ad apicem declivi 



producto-rotundato. Long., It \., kt., tV 1. (vix). 



The conspicuous characters of this species are the absence of 



cilige on the lateral margins of its pronotum and the strong 



puncturation of that segment, which might almost be called 



coarse; it is considerably more so than in any other Australian 



Brachypeplus known to me (except auritus, Murr , in which it 



is altogether of a different type). The pronotum has indication 



of a ongitudinal median line— more distinct in some specimens 



nan n others. The colour varies a little, particularly on the 



pronotum which is infuscate or not and on the abdomen and 



under surface which are of different sliades of testaceous or 



brown. 



N.S. Wales (Mount Kembla); given to me by Mr. Hamilton. 



HAPTONCTJRA. 



//. ocularis, Fairm. I have in my collection a specimen given 

 me by Mr. Koebele taken in N. Queensland, which agrees 

 perfectly with Fairemaire's description of this Tahitian insect. 

 It is certainly identical with examples from the Hawaiian 

 Islands (introduced there, no doubt) of H. tetragonns, Murr (a 

 species irom Ceylon). In Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc , 1885, p. 231, 

 the probability of the identity of //. tetragonns with the previously 

 described //. ocularis is indicated, a probability that is increased 

 by the occurrence in Queensland of the specimen before me. 



SORONIA. 



S. simulanSj Blackb. I have received from Queensland a 

 specimen which seems to differ from tlie type of this species only 



