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extremely coarsely foveolate-puiictulate, the instertices quite con- 

 fused, with no tendency to a linear arrangement, and bearing 

 confused punctures and wrinkles. In the male the basal three 

 ventral segments are carinate down the middle, and the fourth is 

 strongly and widely emarginate at the apex. The underside is 

 rather closely (least closely on the hind body), squamosely, and 

 finely punctured, and is densely clothed with black pubescence, 

 the upper surface being glabrous. 



Seems to be near Z. nigro-cpiiea, Fairm,, l^ut is larger, with the 

 hind body of the male carinate (not "longitudinally impressed"), 

 and wdth the scutellum and the elytral interstices punctulate. 



If M. Fairemaire's description of Z. nigro-cenea can be relied 

 upon, the insect described above is probably a distinct species. 

 But unfortunately that author's " Revision des Zonitis d'Aus- 

 tralie " contains errors (perhaps of the printer) which render it 

 unsafe to give new names to species that seem closely allied to 

 those that are described in it. In the description of Z. indigacea 

 (e.g.) we read of the antenna? " articulo 2^ tertio paulo longiore," 

 but further on indigacea is distinguished from nigy^o-a^nea by 

 " the second joint notably shorter than the third." 



Port Lincoln. 



Z. Ander.'^om, sp. nov. 2 ^igi'a, capite (labro excepto) rufo, 

 elytris (apice excepta) testaceis, prothorace pedibusque 

 brunneo-piceis ; capite antice minus producto ; elytris crebre 

 subtilius punctulatis, obsolete costatis. Long., 7|^ 1. ; lat., 

 2A1. 

 The antenna:^ are about half as long as the whole body ; joint 1 

 is rather short (little more than half as long as tlie distance 

 between the eyes), 2 scarcely longer, 3 slightly longer still, 4 still 

 longer (nearly half again as long as 1). The head is triangular, 

 scarcely longer than the width of its base, which is gently arched 

 liindward, its length about equal to that of the basal four joints 

 of the antenna? together. The labrum is about as long as the 

 clypeus (the two together being less than half as long as the rest 

 of the head), its front portion declivous, its front margin ciliated, 

 its surface feebly and sparingly punctulate and hairy, without 

 any furrow. The hinder part of the clypeus is flat and horizontal, 

 with a deiined margin or ridge, the portion in front being decli- 

 vous ; the hind suture is feebly arched, its surface obscurely jDunc- 

 tulate (most strongly on the ridge). The hinder part of the head 

 is punctured rather strongly in front, very obscurely behind, with 

 a feeble central longitudinal furrow running forward for a short 

 distance from the base. The prothorax is scarcely wider than 

 long-, its front mari-in about a third as wide as the base and as 

 the hind margin of the head; its sides diverge slightly and 



