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from reddish-brown to black, and is often diluted with red 

 at the apex and sides. The prothorax in some specimens 

 is much more conspicuously inflated at the base than in others. 

 The appearance of the specimens is often considerably 

 altered by immersion in alcohol and by abrasion. 



ISACANTHA RHINOTIOIDES, HopO. 



conyestOy Pasc. 



This species has been redescribed by Pascoe under the 

 name of coiigesta; it is to be noted that the appearance of 

 the upper surface is considerably altered by alcohol. But it 

 is readily distinguished from all others of the subfamily known 

 to me by the clothing of the metasternum. In several col- 

 lections I have seen the name rhinofioides applied to dermes- 

 tiventris, which, however, has the metasternal clothing very 

 different. 



ISACANTHA PAPULOSA, PaSC. 



The conspicuous spotting of the elytra of this species is 

 subject to great alteration with age and abrasion, etc. 



SUBFAMILY TYCHIIDES. 



Elleschodes pictus, n. sp. 



Black; head, rostrum, antennae, shoulders and apex of 

 elytra, tibiae, tarsi, and parts of femora more or less red. 

 Upper surface with stout white setae in spots or patches, the 

 interspaces with fine, dark, and indistinct pubescence; under 

 surface and legs with whitish pubescence, denser on sides 

 of meso- and metasturnum than elsewhere. 



Rostrum not very thin, the length of prothorax in male, 

 very little longer in female, moderately curved ; with a line 

 median carina and with four very feeble ones caused b}'^ rows 

 of punctures; sculpture partially concealed behind antennae 

 in male, at base only in female. Antennae rather thin, in- 

 serted one- third from, apex of rostrum in male, two-fifths 

 in female. Froth orar about once and one third as wide as 

 long, with traces of a very feeble median carina ; withi very 

 dense, round, and (except beneath spots of setae) well-defined 

 punctures. Elytra cordate, hardly parallel-sided anywhere; 

 seriate (scarcely striate) punctate, punctures of moderate size 

 but smaller towards suture than sides ; interstices fairly wide, 

 not separately convex, with small scattered punctures. Ahdo- 

 inen with dense, partially concealed punctures. Femora 

 rather stout, very feebly dentate. Length, 2 J mm. 



Tlal). — New South Wales: Forest Reefs, Glen Innes (A. 

 M. Lea). 



