306 Mil. p. p. PASCOE ON AUSTRALIAN LONGICOBNIA. 



Ph^apate DENTICOLLIS. 



P. griseo pubescens ; prothorace utrinque dentato, disco fusco ; elytris 

 in medio cinerascentibus, apicibus oblique truncatis. 



Hab. Rockhampton. 



Derm dark brown, with a greyish pubescence ; head covered with shaggy 

 hairs in front, not conceahng the small scattered punctures; pro- 

 thorax with a small sharp tooth on each side, the disk with a broad 

 subglabrous stripe, well limited at the sides, and very distinctly punc- 

 tured ; scutellura very broad, dark brown, glabrous, minutely punc- 

 tured ; elytra with two raised longitudinal hairy stripes at the base, 

 united towards the middle, another at the shoulder, a large pale ashy 

 patch in the middle common to both elytra, the apices obliquely 

 truncate ; body beneath, legs, and antennae covered with loose greyish 

 hairs. Length 5 lines. 



Easily distinguished from P. alhula in colour, and by the small 

 lateral tooth of the prothorax ; except in fresh specimens, the raised 

 hairy liues on the elytra are unnoticeable. 



Athemistus bitfberculatus. 

 (Howitt's MS.) 



A. vinaceo-fuscus ; prothorace tuberculato, sparsim impresso-punctato ; 

 elytris confertim granulatis, postice bituberculatis, apicibus oblique 

 truncatis, angulo externo obsoleto. 



Hab. " Mountains of Victoria." 



Claret-coloured brown, thinly pubescent ; head almost impunctate, ex- 

 cejJt on the vertex ; prothorax nearlj^ equal in length and breadth in 

 the male, shorter in the female, sparingly punctured, tlie disk with 

 four to seven tubercles (three intermediate nearly obsolete) ; scutellum 

 very small and indistinct ; elytra narrowly ovate, covered with small 

 elongate granules arranged in somewhat oblique lines, on the declivity 

 posteriorly on each side a large mamillary tubercle, the apices oblique, 

 the external angle nearlji^ obsolete ; bodj' beneath and legs reddish 

 brown ; antennae not quite the length of the body {S), but shorter 

 in the female. Length 5| lines. 



Differs from all the other species of the genus, except A. j^thiops, 

 in the two posterior tubercles of the elytra. 



AxHEl^nSTUS nOWITTIT. 



{A. UamcB, Howitt's MS.) 

 .^.fulvo-fuscus; prothorace fere impunctato, quinquetuberculato; elytris 



tuberculis nitidis instructis, apice singulorum truncato, angulo externo 



acuto. 

 Hab. Kiama (New South Wales), Clarence River (Queensland). 

 Pubescent, fulvous-brown ; head with few punctures ; prothorax nearly 



impunctate, its disk with five tubercles, the three anterior oblong 



shining ; scutellum small, narrowly triangular ; elytra narrowly ob- 



