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long, scarcely so broad as the prothorax in the male, covered with not 

 very closely arranged glossy oblong tubercles in somewhat oblique 

 rows, the apices truncate with the external angle acute ; body be- 

 neath dark brown ; legs and antennae pale, the latter in both sexes 

 not so long as the body. Length 5-5^ lines. 

 Very like A. rugosulus ; but tlie latter (inter alia) has the apices 

 of the elytra rounded, and the prothorax much more punctured. 



AtHEMISTUS PUNCTICOLIilS. 

 A. fuscus, pilis erectis minutis dispersis; prothorace confertim punctato, 



utrinque tuberculo rotundato fere obsoleto. 

 Hah. Oraeo (Gippsland). 



Dark brown, finely pubescent, with numerous small erect hairs inter- 

 spersed ; head with few punctures ; prothorax closely punctured, on 

 each side above the lateral tooth a low rounded very indistinct tu- 

 bercle; scutellum small, narrowly triangular; elytra narrower than 

 the prothorax ( c? ), covered with elongate shining granules in nearly 

 regular rows, the conjoined apices rounded; body beneath, legs, and 

 antennae dark brown, the latter much shorter than the body. Length 

 h\ lines. 

 The short flying hairs of this species, with the non-tuberculate 

 (or nearly so) and closely punctured prothorax, at once differentiate 

 it ; in A. pubescens, the only other setosely pilose species, the hairs 

 are much larger and longer. 



Athemistus -^THIOPS. 



(Howitt's MS.) 



A. ater, opacus; prothorace grosse punctato, quinquetuberculato ; elytris 

 confertim verrucosis, postice bitubei'culatis, apicibus truncatis, angulo 

 extemo obsoleto. 



Hab. " Mountains of Victoria." 



Black, opake, pubescence with a brownish tinge ; eyes rather approxi- 

 mate above ; prothorax coarsely punctured, the disk with five tubercles, 

 the three central much less distinct ; scutellum broadly triangular ; 

 elytra ovate, broader than the prothorax in both sexes, closely covered 

 with warty tubercles, which are much larger at the shoulders, poste- 

 riorly on the proclivity of each elytron a prominent tubercle, the apices 

 rounded ; antennae in both sexes above two-thirds of the length of the 

 body. Length 31 ( <? )-4i ( ? ) lines. 



A small black species, like A. funereus ; but the two posterior 

 tubercles on the elytra are sufficiently distinctive*. Dr. Howitt, 



* Dr. Howitt mentions, in his note on this species, that the " spot on the disk 

 of the elytra when first taken is snowy white." An exceedingly indistinct spot, 

 which I at fii-st overlooked, may be detected with a good lens nearly in the mid- 

 dle of each elytron. There are also traces of yellowish patches at the base or sides 

 of the prothorax in some other species. 



