308 ME. F. p. PASCOE ON AUSTEALIAN LONGHCOENIA. 



to whose kindness I am indebted for the new species of this genus 

 here described, mentions a still smaller one than this, taken in an 

 ants' nest near Sydney, in company with Cordus hospes, Schon., 

 and Lacon geminatus, Oand. Another many-spined species, found 

 under a log of wood at Brisbane, is also alluded to. 



G-LAUCTTES STJTUEALIS. 



G. fuscescens, eapite, prothorace, maculisque elytrorum griseo-argenteis, 

 pubescentibus ; elytris octomaculatis, regione suturali depressis, grisBo 

 pubescentibus. 

 Hah. Cape York. 



Light brownish, shining, head and prothorax closely covered with a silky 

 greyish-silvery pubescence, a few punctures in front between the an- 

 tennae, none on the prothorax ; scutellum small, rounded behind ; 

 elytra with eight spots and a broad central stripe covered with a silky 

 greyish pubescence, the rest glabrous, very distinctly punctured, the 

 suture flat or even somewhat hollowed from a point a little behind the 

 scutellum nearly to the apex, which is truncate, with a strong spine at 

 the external angle ; body beneath black, shining, a very thin whitish 

 pubescence along the sides ; femora pale reddish brown, white at the 

 base ; tibise and tarsi blackish ; antennae dark brown. Length 5 lines. 

 Allied to G. scitulus, a Batchian insect, but different in colour 

 and distribution of pubescence, and at once distinguished by the 

 concave depression along the suture ; another species is found in 

 the New Hebrides, and two more in Madagascar. The genus 

 certainly does] not belong to the Tmesistermnce, in which it has 

 hitherto been placed. 



Steongtltieus cerestoides. 



S. testaceo-fuscus, disperse albo pilosus ; prothorace vix longiore quam, 

 latiore, grosse punctate , albo quadrimaculato ; elytris modice elon- 

 gatis, apice rotundatis. 



Hab. Tasmania. 



Testaceous brown, with dispersed stifRsh hairs clothing the upper surface ; 

 prothorax not longer than broad, coarsely punctured, the punctures 

 closely approximate but not confluent, four white spots on the disk, 

 the two posterior largest ; scutellum rounded, white; elytra moderately 

 long, thickly punctured, rounded at the apex ; body beneath and legs 

 with long whitish hairs ; anteimse with the first two joints glabrous, 

 shining, the remainder pubescent, opake. Length 6 lines. 



A species resembling S. scutellatus, Hope, but with a shorter 

 prothorax, differently punctured, and broader elytra in proportion 

 to their length, of uniform colour. 



