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nitidus ; ferrugineo-piceus ; antennis, palpis, pedibus, pro- 

 thoracis lateribus, et elytrorum signis nonnullis, testaceis ; 

 prothorace leviter sat crebre, elytris sparsius fortius, corpore 

 subtus (segmento ventrali apicali excepto, hoc subtilius 

 crebre subrugulose), punctulatis. Long., 1 1. (vix) ; lat., * 1. 

 (^ix). 

 The testaceous markings on the elytra are complicated and ill- 

 defined, and probably variable. In the example before me on 

 either elytron a wide \T.tta commences close to the humeral callus 

 .and runs obliquely towards the suture, but before reaching it 

 turns hindward and runs parallel to the suture to a little dis- 

 "tance short of the apex, where it becomes merged in the wholly 

 testaceous colour of that part ; in its hinder half its internal edge 

 is bi-emarginate in such fashion that the dark sutural portion of 

 the elytra appears to be twice dilated in its hinder half, and as a 

 'whole presents somewhat the outlines of a wineglass with a broad 

 •stem. On its external side the testaceous vitta in the hinder half 

 is indeterminately dilated almost to the lateral margin, but some 

 portion of this dilated portion is darker than other portions, so 

 that there seems here to be a testaceous ground colour bearing 

 some vagiiely darker spots. The prothorax is about twice as wide 

 ^s long ; it is strongly emarginate in front, but not conspicuously 

 sinuated behind the eyes ; the sides are slightly rounded, the 

 angles but feebly defined ; the surface is more coarsely punctured 

 near the lateral margins than in the middle. 



A single specimen was sent to me from Western Australia by 

 E. Meyrick, Esq. 



BUCOLUS FOURNETI, 2iuls, 



This species, omitted in Mr. Master's catalogue, although des- 

 •cribed originally on specimens stated to have been taken in Aus- 

 tralia, is common in the neighbourhood of Adelaide. I have also 

 taken it in the Port Lincoln district and in the Lake Eyre basin 

 in the interior. 



LIPERNES, gen. nov. (Bucolo afiinis). 

 Oorpus pubescens ; caput prothoraci mediocriter insertum ; 

 antennarum basis haud aperta (?) ; clypeus cum genis 

 superficiem ante oculos extensam efiS.ciens; oculi magni 

 subtiliter granulati, intus subparalleli ; epipleurse sat angustse, 

 postice gradatim angustata?, apicem vix attingentes, contra 

 pedes intermedios et posticos profunde foveatee ; prosternum 

 antice sat breve, sat ?equaliter convexum, in medio 

 longitudinaliter nee carinatum nee depressum ; mesosternum 

 bre\"issimum (?) antice truncatum ; abdomen segmentis 5 

 (basali et apicali inter se sub^equalibus) conform.atum ; sutura3 

 ventrales bene impressae ; lamell?e abdominales integra? 



