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not been liitherto represented in Australia, althougli at least two 

 genera occur in New Gruinea, and others in tlie Malay region, as 

 well as in Africa and America. The present genus, however, has 

 very little affinity to either of these, but in habit more nearly re- 

 sembles Pentacosmia, which is also Australian, although belonging 

 to quite a different group. Of the two specimens before me, one 

 (a male) is very much smaller, with longer antennae, and the last 

 seven joints, when taken together, quite as long as the preceding 

 four ; while in the female the first four are half as long again as 

 the seven following. The species appears to vary as to depth of 

 colour and amount of greyish marking. 



ESSISUS DISPAB. 

 E. brunneus, griseo varius, plumis antennarum nigris. 

 Hab. Queensland. 



Reddish brown ; the head and prothorax darker, sparingly pilose, and 

 coarsely punctured above ; sides of the prothorax and sides and pos- 

 terior part of the elytra covered with a greyish pubescence ; antennae 

 reddish brown, the plume on the fourth joint dark brown or black; 

 body beneath brownish, with a sparse grey pubescence. Length 2~3\ 

 lines. 



Agapete vestita. 

 A. nigrescens ; capite protlioraceque, macula magna laterali excepta, 



rufo-fulvis, crebre et subtiliter punctulatis. 

 Hab. South Australia (Gawler). 



Head and prothorax of equal breadth, reddish fulvous, except a large 



black spot on the side of the latter, minutely and finely punctured, 



slightly pubescent, and having also a few short erect black hairs ; scu- 



tellum dark brown ; elytra obscure greyish, extending to the end of 



the first abdominal segment ; sterna and abdomen black, the sides of 



the former with a coarse whitish pubescence; legs black; antennae 



brownish. Length 6 lines. 



This species has longer elytra than either A. carissima or 



KrueslercB ; from the former, with which it agrees most in colour, 



it is distinguished by the narrower outline of the prothorax 



nearly parallel at the sides, and its (and the head's) minute and 



closely set puncturation. 



Eabinis Ke-cteslee^. 

 E. nigra; capite, frontee xcepta, prothoraceque hoc flavis, basi punctato ; 



elytris circa scutellum, et fasciis duabus, una ante medium interrupta, 



flavis; antennis concoloribus. 

 Hab. South Australia (Gawler). 

 Black, with scattered erect hairs ; head yellow, space between the eyes 



black ; prothorax yellow, the anterior border not raised as in E. mi- 



