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anteriorly, constricted there, its punctuation transverse and 
rugose. Llytra oblong, nearly double the width of thorax at 
the base, gradually narrowed backwards; they are striate- 
punctate, each bears a small elevation in line with the hind 
thighs, and another, nearer the side, near the top of the hind 
slope. Femora clavate, the posterior with a large angulation 
or tooth underneath. TJibie flexuous. Tarsi slender, the 
anterior with very narrow basal articulations, third joint 
expanded, with elongate lobes. 
This is a minute member of the S. Lawsonz series. it 
may be at once distinguished from S. nigrosparsa by its 
small size, the slender second joint of the tarsi, and by the 
entire absence of the broad groove along the middie of the 
head. 
Length (rostr. excl.) 14, breadth # line. 
Mount Arthur. 
One example from the collection made by Messrs. Cheese- 
man and Adams. 
Group Cerambycide. 
DROTOTELUS, gen. nov. 
Head \road, nearly vertical, and prolonged anteriorly, con- 
tracted behind so as to form a short neck. yes distinctly 
facetted, large, sublunate, deeply emarginate in front, their 
greatest bulk in front. Antenne inserted in projections close 
to the ocular emarginations, as long as the body; basal joint 
stout, curvate, its length twice the breadth, second very short, 
joints 3-11 filiform, third longer than first but shorter than 
fourth, fifth to seventh each longer than fourth. Thorax 
elongate, deeply constricted before and behind the obtusely 
dilated postmedian part of its sides. Scutellum triangular. 
Elytra with obtusely prominent shoulders, they taper gradu- 
ally backwards, apices nearly truncate. Legs slender, pilose. 
Tarsi setose above, anterior densely clothed underneath with 
squamiform sete, and fringed laterally, basal joint rather 
larger than second, the third cleft to the base, with long 
slender lobes. 
Front core prominent, situated at the base of the pro- 
sternum, almost contiguous, being separated by the thin 
margins of the cavities only. Metasternum convex, medially 
canaliculate. Abdomen elongate and narrow, basal segment 
hardly twice the length of the second, third and fourth de- 
crease, fifth about as long as the preceding one, rounded and 
ciliated at the extremity. 
This seems to be a quite isolated form, It may be dis- 
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