Bihliographical Notices. 257 



LONGICORNIA. 

 PRIONID^. 



Tragosominse. 

 Enneaphyllus, gen. nov. 



Apical joint of labial palpi slightly elongate, subfusiforni, 

 truncate at the apex. Thorax transverse, with a small sharp 

 upturned spine on each side. Scutellura parallel-sided at the 

 base, narrowed at the apex. Elytra elongate, parallel, de- 

 pressed, not spined at the sutural angle. Prosternum very- 

 narrow. Femora not dentate at the apex. Abdomen with 

 the fifth segment emarginate at the apex in both sexes. 



($ . Antennae as long as the whole insect ; third joint 

 scarcely longer than the first ; the fourth to tenth joints gradually 

 become flatter and slightly increase in length, the third to tenth 

 opaque, each emitting from the apex below a very long flat 

 branch ; the eleventh joint long, arched, lamelliform. 



$ . Antennse two thirds the length of the insect, slender 

 and simple ; the third joint as long as the two following taken 

 together ; the apex of the third and the following joints 

 entirely poriferous below. 



This genus should be placed between Prionoplus and Tra- 

 gosoma. 



Enneaphyllus ceneipenms, sp. n. 



Elongatus, parallelus, piceus, nitidus ; elytris senescentibus, crebre 

 punctatis ; corpore subtus femoribusque testaceis ; pectore longe 

 piloso. 



Long. 12-15 lin., lat. 3|-4i lin. 



Head and thorax very thickly and rugosely punctured ; the 

 latter a little broader than the head, flattened on the disk, 

 with a single spine on each side. Elytra parallel, somewhat 

 Eeneous, straight at the base, so that the shoulders, although 

 rounded, are rectangular ; the sides very finely margined, 

 obtusely rounded at the apex, and with no sutural spine. 



Hah. Tasmania. Brit. Mus. 



British Museum, Feb. 20, 1877. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Ostriches and Ostrich- Farming. By Julius de Mosenthal, Consul- 



General of the South- African Republics for France, &c. &c., and 



James Edmund Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S., «&c. With Illustrations. 



Trubner & Co., 1877. 



This interesting work appears to have had its origin in the pubHc 



demand for information consequent upon the exhibition at Vienna 



