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To Dr. Howitt, of Melbourne, I am indebted for not less than 

 four new species of Athemistus. This genus appears to take the 

 place in Australia of the European Dorcadion. I have also a 

 Tasmanian specimen of Dorcadida hilocularis, White, from the 

 same gentleman, who observes that this and Lacon variabilis are 

 the only Coleoptera known to him common to Australia and 

 New Zealand ; to these, however, may be added Epithora dor- 

 salis, MacLeay. 



Besides the new species characterized in this paper, I have 

 described the following since the Society did me the honour to 

 publish the list of Australian Longicornia in their Journal, 

 viz. : — 



Demomisis filiim, Champion Bay, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 May 1867 (3rd ser. vol. xix.) p. 310. 



Thoris ehurifera, Eockhampton, I. c. p. 317. 



Thephantes clavatus, Darling Downs, I. c. p. 319. 



Elaptus simulator, Cape York, I. c. June 1867, p. 413. 



Petalodes, in consequence of its having been previously used, was 

 changed to Anastasis. 



Hebesecis basalis. 



H. cinerascens ; prothorace vittis duabus, elytris regione scutellari et 

 fascia postmediana fuscis, his basi crista pilosa instructis. 



Hab. Rockhampton. 



Pale ashy ; head obscurely clouded with ochreous and brown, a dark 

 brown A-shaped mark on the vertex ; prothorax with the disk bitu- 

 berculate, ochreous at the base, bounded by a dark brown stripe on 

 each side ; scutellum squarish ; elytra with an ochreous patch below 

 the scutellum, margined with dark brown except posteriorly, a narrow 

 band behind the middle also dark brown, the base on each side with 

 an oblong crest composed of closely set erect dark brown hairs, each 

 elytron with three or four longitudinal ochreous lines ; body beneath 

 and legs with a coarse whitish pubescence, the middle of the abdomen 

 nearly glabrous, black; antennae nearly twice as long as the body, 

 brown, ringed more or less with white, the sixth and eighth joints 

 entirely white. Length 4| lines. 



This species approaches S. niphonoides in coloration; but the 

 pilose crest at the base of each elytron is peculiar to it. 



Attpobis inteboalaeis. 



■^- ( 2 ) nigrescens ; prothorace vitta glabra seneo-nigra, lateribus ochreo 

 tomentosis j elytris breviuscuhs, pube cinerascente tectis, et ochreo 

 raaculatis. 



Hab. Cape York. 



