the Australian Longicornia. 533 



verse, with a round, raised border posteriorly ; elytra subtrigo- 

 nate, sparingly punctured, with numerous concolorous tubercles 

 on the disc, the apex truncate, a band of pure-white, densely set, 

 short hairs along the side from the shoulder to near the apex ; 

 body beneath with a sparse greyish pile ; legs nearly free from 

 hairs, except a few at the base of the tibiae and on the tarsi. 



Length 8 lines. 



I was at first inclined to consider this as only a very remark- 

 able local variety of Symphyletes viridis, Don., a variety altered in 

 colour, with the pubescence reduced to a minimum, the latter 

 possibly from the age of the specimens. But the compact, pure 

 white stripe of silky pile along the sides of the elytra seems to 

 show that this is not the case, but that nudity is the normal con- 

 dition. On a close examination there are also many points of 

 difference which leave no doubt of its distinctness, as for instance, 

 the more irregular prothorax, the form of the scutellum, and the 

 truncate apices of the elytra. The male has a short spine on the 

 anterior coxse. 



5. Symphyletes farinosus. 



S. pubescens,' griseus, albo fuscoque varius, et maculis fulvis 

 dispersus ; elytris basi tuberculis minutis sparsis, huraeris 

 callosis, apice truncatis ; abdominis segmentis griseis, fulvo- 

 raarginatis. 



Sydney. 



Closely covered with a greyish pile, varied with white and dark 

 brown, and banded or speckled with ochre-yellow ; head yellow- 

 ish, with two white longitudinal lines between the eyes, an im- 

 pressed black line on the vertex ; antennae rather longer than the 

 body, ciliated, grey, with paler spots ; prothorax transverse, ob- 

 scurely corrugated, without tubercles, and perfectly covered by 

 the pubescence ; scutellum broadly rounded posteriorly ; elytra 

 callous and projecting at the shoulder, incurved behind it, then 

 slightly rounded, the apex truncate, near the scutellum the white 

 predominates, taking a somewhat triangular shape, this is followed 

 by more or less brown, the brown again predominating as an 

 oblique band behind the middle, but bordering it anteriorly, the 

 whole apical portion and a patch behind the shoulder are princi- 

 pally white ; over all are spots of yellow, and smaller spots of 

 black, these latter are owing to flattish granules at the base, and 

 beyond it to the derm seen through the thinner pubescence at 

 those points ; body beneath greyish, the pectus and margins of 



