302 MB. F. p. PASCOE ON ATJSTEALIAN LONGICOENIA. 



Derm blackish ; head covered with a greyish tomentum, two glabrous 

 stripes on the vertex ; prothorax with a broad central stripe, gradually 

 broader towards the base, glabrous, nitid, and sparingly punctured, 

 and on each side a dense ochreous tomentum ; scutellum nearly semi- 

 circular; elytra rather short, and somewhat cylindrical, irregularly 

 punctured, the punctures black and glabrous mixed with small patches 

 of ashy pubescence spotted with ochreous ; body beneath and legs 

 covered with an irregular greyish tomentum ; antennae rather longer 

 than the body, with small spots of greyish. Length 5 lines. 

 Five species of this genus are described in 'Long. Malay.', all 

 from Batchian and New Guinea; the present has shorter and 

 more cylindrical elytra than the others, but in coloration comes 

 ViQdiV A. juhata. 



Ehttiphoea Argus. 



J?. pallide ochraceo-fulva; elytris mediocriter nigro maculatis, maculis 

 parvis, distinctissimis, niveo annulatis, humeris glabratis, nigris, nitidis, 

 apicibus oblique truncatis ; antennis nigris. 

 Hab. Rockhampton. 



Pubescence very dense, pure pale ochreous yellow ; head impunctate, a 

 white line round the e3'es ; prothorax short, cylindrical, transversely 

 rugose, a few small punctures on the middle ; scutellum narrow, 

 rounded behind; elytra covered, but not crowded, with numerous 

 small, black, very distinct spots, those at the base granulated, each sur- 

 rounded with a well-limited, snowy white ring ; the shoulders naked, 

 glossy black, also surrounded with a white ring ; the apices sharply and 

 obliquely truncate ; body beneath, femora, and tibiae with a bright 

 ochre-yellow pubescence, slightly patched with whitish ; tarsi paler ; 

 antenufe black. Length 12-14 lines. 

 Allied to B. polymita, but the spots much less crowded, with the 

 glossy black on the shoulders well-limited, and the apices of the, 

 elytra obliquely truncate, not rounded. It is one of the handsomest 

 species of the genus. 



Ehttiphoea inteetincta. 



R. pallide fidva ; prothorace nigro fasciato ; elytris obscure nigro macu- 

 latis, maculis plus minus conjunctis, humeris supra albis, infra glabra- 

 tis, nigris ; antennis nigris, niveo annidatis. 



Hab. South Australia (Gawler). 



Pubescence pale fulvous ; head glabrous, black, with patches of fulvous 

 pubescence in front, two stripes on the vertex, line round the eyes, 

 and a bar behind them also fulvous ; prothorax with two distinct bands 

 of fulvous, and some irregular patches between them, and an elevated 

 glabrous transverse line in the middle ; scutellum subscutiform ; 

 elytra entirely covered with a short dense pale fulvous pubescence 

 obscurely spotted with black, each spot paler posteriorly and blending 



