Two Species of Atelicus. 231 



scales like those on the head, and with an indistinct fovea between 

 the eyes ; eyes rather remote from the fore part of the thorax, 

 smallish, round and sub-depressed. Thorax with the length and 

 breadth nearly equal, the sides nearly parallel posteriorly, but 

 rounded near the fore part, which is moderately constricted ; the 

 whole under surface, the sides, and a slender sub-interrupted 

 dorsal line, clothed with yellow scales ; the upper surface with 

 somewhat coarse, scattered punctures. Elytra nearly three times 

 the length of the thorax, and about one-third broader ; nearly 

 cylindrical, with oblique and very slightly prominent humeral 

 angles ; the apex rounded, striato-punctate ; the punctures round 

 and tolerably large ; the intervening spaces flat : a small yellow 

 spot is seen on the humeral angle, and at the apex of each elytron 

 is a ring (not quite a true circle) formed of scales of the same 

 colour. The under side of the insect is for the most part clothed 

 with yellow scales, but the sides of the chest and abdomen are of 

 the same red colour as other parts. The legs are well clothed 

 with scales, of a somewhat paler yellow than those on other parts ; 

 the under surface of the broad tarsi is clothed with a velvet-like 

 substance ; the femora are moderately incrassated near the apex ; 

 the tibiae stout, and very short ; the anterior tibia is sub-den- 

 ticulate, and ciliated on the inner side, and furnished with a 

 liooklet at the apex. 



I have seen but one specimen of this insect, which was sent me 

 by my brother from Adelaide. 



