90 ME. r. p. PASCOE ON THE lOI^^GICOENIA 01" AUSTRALIA. 



lines on each side, the innermost with three sHghtly pilose crests ; at 

 the base, middle, and apex, and towards the outer margin a large dull 

 brownish patch ; body beneath and legs brown, partially pubescent ; 

 antennae shorter than the body, brownish. Length 4^ lines. 



This is the second Australian species of a large genus which 

 abounds in the Malay archipelago and is found as far north as 

 Japan. It should be placed near P . propinq^ua and P. iliaca from 

 Borneo. 



Sybra centubio. 

 S. fusca, nitida, lateribus griseo pubescentibus ; elytris subelongatis, sin- 

 gulis biseriatim griseo guttulatis, apicibus productis, anguste acutis, 

 dehiscentibus. 

 Hob. New South Wales. 



Dark brown, shining; the sides more or less densely covered with a 

 greyish pubescence, which takes the form of stripes above and below 

 the eye and on the prothorax, but which are less definite on the elytra, 

 and are accompanied by two rows of small greyish spots, the outer ex- 

 tending from the shoulder nearly to the apex, the inner row, between 

 the suture and stripe, composed of about five or six distinct spots ; 

 head loosely pubescent in front ; middle of the disk of the prothorax 

 nearly glabrous, sparingly punctured ; scutellum semicircular ; elytra 

 very slightly pubescent, except at the sides, the punctures subseriately 

 arranged and confined to the basal half; body beneath brown, shining, 

 speckled with a greyish pubescence ; legs and antennae brown, slightly 

 pubescent, the latter ringed with ashy. Length 6 lines. 



This well-marked species belongs to the second of the artificial 

 sections proposed by me in 'Long. Malay.' (p. 214), into which 

 a part of the extensive genus Syhra was located. The only other 

 Australian species of this section {S. acuta) is less related to the 

 above than some of the Malayan species — 8. pulverea for example. 



ESSISFS. 

 Caput baud elongatum ; fronte quadrata, convexa, infera, subhorizon- 

 tali, apice producto; tuberibus antenniferis validis, subparallelis. 

 Oculi baud divisi, mediocres. Palpi maxillares acuti. Antenna 11- 

 articulatse, fimbriatse, corpore paulo longiores ( S ), vel breviores ( $ ) ; 

 scapo cylindi-ico, modice elongato, piloso ; articulo secundo breviter 

 obconico ; tertio scapo longiore ; quarto tertio sequah, apice infra plu- 

 moso ; articulis sequentibus multo brevioribus. Prothorax cylindricus, 

 capite baud latior. Elytra breviuscula, angustata, parallela, apicibus 

 rotundatis. Pedes brevissimi, aequales ; femora incrassata ; tarsi art. 

 penultimo profunde diviso, ultimo mediocri. Pro- et mesosterna 

 simplicia. 



The subfamily JIippopsin<B, to which this genus belongs, has 



