74 Mr. J. O. Westwood's Descriptions of Species, &;c. 



elytra more attenuated behind, and the legs longer, above of an 

 ochraceous yellow colour. Head above finely punctured; the 

 clypeus elongated, the sides rounded and slightly elevated, the 

 front margin with a deep, nearly angular incision. Antennae, 

 palpi and parts of the mouth concolorous ; prothorax subconical, 

 slightly dilated in the middle of the lateral angles, and with the 

 posterior angles slightly produced outwardly; disc slightly convex, 

 highly polished, and nearly impunctate ; middle of the hind margin 

 slightly emarginate, for the reception of the scutellum : on each 

 side of the disc, opposite the subdilated part, is a small black spot; 

 scutellum glabrous : elytra with the shoulders very much dilated, 

 behind which they are gradually attenuated to the extremity; the 

 disc is very glabrous and scarcely punctured ; the suture de- 

 pressed from the base for about half its length, within each of the 

 humeral angles is a minute black dot, and there is another on 

 each elytron near the apex of the scutellum ; another, larger and 

 transverse, is placed rather beyond the middle of each elytron, and 

 a nearly round one towards the apex. The podex is very convex, 

 covered with fine strigse, arranged circularly, with an oval black 

 dot in the centre. Beneath the prosternum, mesosternal process 

 ovate, with the extremity slightly pointed (fig. 8 a, 8h) ; front of the 

 metasternuin and posterior coxae yellow, the remainder of the me- 

 tasternum and the abdomen black, glabrous, punctate, and thickly 

 clothed with cinereous hairs. The legs are long, slender and fulvous. 

 Whether this be a variety of E. octo-pimctata, Hope, MS., I 

 havenotat present means of clearly determining; it seems, however, 

 to agree in general with Burmeister's short description (Handb. 

 iii. p. 540), except in the maculation of the prothorax and elytra. 



Eupoecila succinea. (PI. VH. fig. 9.) 



The short description given by Mr, Hope of this species (Schi- 

 zorhinas, Trans. Ent. Soc. vol. iii. p. 281) contains no description 

 of its structural details. No figures have indeed hitherto been 

 published of the characters of the genus ; I therefore take this 

 opportunity of adding a figure of this species, with details taken 

 from the male in Mr. Hope's Collection. Fig. da represents one 

 of the mandibles ; fig. 9 b, one of the maxillae, the inner lobe being 

 simple, whilst the upper one is acute and horny at the tip ; fig. 9 c, 

 the mentum rather wider in front than at the base, and somewhat 

 cordate punctate, the middle of the fore margin being emarginate; 

 fig. 9t/ and fig. 9f, the mesosternal process, seen from beneath 

 and sideways, which is wide, and with the anterior lateral angles 

 acute. 



This species is a native of the Swan River. 



