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The elytra are without trace of a V, but have dark 

 sides, as in scutellaris, textilis, and others. The clothing is 

 sparser on the upper surface of the head and rostrum than 

 elsewhere. The femora are very feebly annulated. 



Readily distinguished from all others of the genus by 

 the conspicuous ochreous clothing of the elytra. The legs are 

 stouter than in any other species of the genus knov%'n to me, 

 and the prothorax is wider in proportion. The elytral cloth- 

 ing, except in its colour, is much as in text His. 



Catastygnus elegans, n. sp. 



Black; parts of appendages obscurely diluted with red. 

 Under surface with dense pale scales, having a more or less 

 decided golden lustre ; elytra with dense whitish scales, thickly 

 interspersed with setae, clothing of sides (except the extreme 

 margins) blackish, the dark parts meeting at apex and run- 

 ning irregularly along suture to base; prothorax almost 

 glabrous. 



Hostruni with coarse partially concealed punctures; 

 median carina very distinct, the others rather feeble. Pro- 

 thorax moderately transverse, sides rather strongly rounded, 

 base distinctly wider than apex, with coarse vermiculate 

 sculpture, and with a rather feeble median line. Elytra 

 much wider than prothorax, shoulders somewhat rounded, 

 parallel sided to beyond the middle; punctures in striae large 

 and deep, but partially concealed. Length, 12^-14 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Coen River (H. Hacker). 



The elytra appear to have two wide stripes of white 

 scales; the dark sutural marking is not quite so dark as on 

 the sides. On one specimen almost the whole of the scales 

 on the UTider surface are black, but this may be due to 

 grease. 



The elytral markings somewhat resemble those of cer- 

 tain specimens of limbatus, but the shoulders are square and 

 the elytra are not dilated posteriorly. The prothoiax is 

 without the white lateral stripe nearly always present in mem- 

 bers of the genus. In shape it is like tertilis, and the elytral 

 clothing (except about the suture) is much the same. 



Amisallus tuberosus, Boh. 



In the specific diagnosis of this species the antennae are 

 described as 'subtenues," but in the generic diagnosis they 

 are described as "validiusculae," and the scape as 'apice valde 

 incrassato,'' with the two basal joints of the funicle elongate. 



Four specimens before me (from Blue Mountains, Jeno- 

 lan, and Forest Reefs) evidently belong to the species. They 

 differ from nodosus in having the elytra flatter, with the 



