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flavescentibus, inter oculos, confertis, alteris rostroque remote ad- 

 spersis; protliorace fere cylindrico, paulo i)one apicein perparuni 

 latiore, in medio leviter incurvato, pnnctulato, dimidio basali sub- 

 tiliter corrugato ; scutello minute ; elytris prothorace fere duplo la- 

 tioribus, costulatis, interstitiis transverse fastigiatis, fastigiis angu- 

 statis, apicibus subparallelis, in medio maculis flavescentibus distin- 

 ctis ornatis ; infra pedibusque ferrugineis. Long. 5 lin. rost. incl. 

 Hab. Western Australia. 



This species aud tlie following are distinguislicd from the New- 

 Zealand E. acuminatus, Fabr., by tlie sbape of the head and pro- 

 tborax : the former in B. acuminatus tapers gradually from be- 

 hind the eyea to its junction with the prothorax, and is not sud- 

 denly narrowed posteriorly ; and the prothorax is shorter com- 

 paratively, and very decidedly broader at about a third of its 

 length from the apex. Tho species before us is the largest of the 

 three, and is distinguished from the following by its ligliter 

 colour, the greater breadth of the elytra, and their deep quadrate 

 impressions, divided from one another by very narrow transverse 

 ridges. I have seen numerous specimens of all the species, and 

 these differences seem constant : the two Australian species are 

 the most nearly connected, and it may be that they are only 

 local subspecies ; the size and colour, however, are distinctive 

 enough to the eye. B. Lacordairei is described by the celebrated 

 Professor to whom it is dedicated, but who, unfortunately, has 

 not given it a name. 



llHADiNOSOMUS Lacordaibei. R. fusco-fcrrugineus; capite pone 

 oculos oblongo-ovato, squamulis minutis adsperso ; prothorace ut m 

 ])ra3cedenti, scd minus leviter punctato et corrugato; elytris pro- 

 thorace sesqui latioribus, costulatis, interstitiis fastigiatis, fastigiis 

 hand angustis, ai)icibus subparallelis, in medio maculis flavescentibus 

 ornatis; infra, pedibusque ferrugineis, setulis adpressis remote ob- 

 sitis. Long. 3-3| lin. rost. incl. 

 Hah. Queensland. 



OCIIKOMETA. 



(Brachyderinae.) 

 Bostrum breve, crassum, apice rotundatum, integrum ; scrohes 

 subapicales, breves, curvatse, supra approximatse ; mandihidcB 

 apicibus oblongatso, recta). Oculi prominentes, rotundati. An- 

 lennce mediocres ; scapo sensim crassiore ; funiculo 7-articulato, 

 art. primo obconico, cseteris trausversis, cylindricis, sequalibus ; 

 clava anguste ovata. Frothorax transversus, lateribus leviter 



