from Lizard Island, North-eastern Australia. 4.65 
Zygocera luctuosa. 
Z. albo pubescens, maculis fasciisque atris ornata; scutello postice et 
ad latera rotundato ; elytris basi cristato-plumosis. 
Black, closely covered with a somewhat ashy-white pile, banded 
and spotted with black; head white, with two black stripes in 
front and one beneath each eye, and two black spots on the 
vertex; antennze black, the intermediate joints white at the 
base ; prothorax transverse, the lateral spine behind the middle, 
the disk not tuberculate, white, with three black bands; scutel- 
lum white, rounded at the sides and behind; elytra subtrigonate, 
the shoulders produced, the base gibbous, bearing a narrow 
crest, which is crowned with short erect hairs, the posterior half 
with a single carina, which terminates in the apical spine, base 
black, except a white spot above the shoulder, the disk with 
a few black spots, in the centre of each of which is a round 
smooth puncture, posteriorly two black irregular bands; legs 
pubescent, white, banded with black ; body beneath glossy black, 
with patches of white hairs, particularly on the sides of the ab- 
dominal segments and sterna. Length 5 lines. 
A beautiful species, allied to Zygocera plumifera, but readily 
distinguished (inter alia) by its colour, form of scutellum and 
prothorax. 
Meton tropicus. 
M. nigro-piceus, parce grisescente pubescens; prothorace trans- 
versim subquadrato, ad latera granulato et spina minuta instructo ; 
elytris postice albo fasciatis, 
Pitchy black, rather sparsely covered with short greyish hairs; 
antennee scarcely longer than the body, black, with all the joints, 
except the basal, covered with a greyish pile; prothorax trans- 
versely subquadrate, with a pale-greyish stripe in the middle, 
the sides darker, inclining to brown, and furnished with nu- 
merous black shining granules, lateral tooth small; scutellum 
transverse, pale grey ; elytra broadest at the shoulder, gradually 
receding to the apex, tuberous or crested at the base, the crest 
together with the basal half of the elytra with several glossy 
black granules, the posterior half pale brown, with a transverse 
white band, a little bent near the suture, towards the apex ; legs 
pubescent, greyish; body beneath pitchy, with a greyish pile. 
Length 6 lines. 
This species is more nearly allied to the Aru Meton granulicollis 
than to the Australian Meton Digglesii, agreeing with the former 
in the style of coioration, the granulated prothorax, with its small 
lateral tooth and the narrower elytra, but differing in the broader 
and shorter prothorax, more trigonate elytra, the nearly trans- 
verse posterior band, and more ashy hue. Meton has been re- 
