534 Mr. Francis P. Pascoe's Notes on 



the abdominal segments ochre-yellow ; legs greyish, tinged with 

 yellow on the tarsi, the femora and tibiae spotted with yellow. 



Length 10 lines. 



A beautiful and very distinct species. 



6. Symphyletes neglectus. 



S. dense cinerascente-pubescens, maculis ochraceis irroratus ; 

 prothorace lateribus antice dentato ; elytris basi tuberculatis, 

 maculis nigris nitidis adspersis, apice oblique sinuatis, bi- 

 spinosis. 



Sydney. 



Covered with a close, pale ashy pubescence, slightly varied 

 with darker and speckled with light ochre-yellow ; head whitish, 

 with ochre spots, and long white hairs on the face ; lip and palpi 

 ferruginous ; mandibles black ; antennae ciliated beneath, the 

 basal joints with a few long white hairs ; prothorax a little shorter 

 than broad, nearly smooth above, a short black tooth at the side 

 anteriorly ; scutellum rounded behind ; elytra gradually narrow- 

 ing from the shoulders, which are rounded and prominent, the 

 apex of each obliquely sinuate and armed with two rather distant 

 spines, the base with several small black tubercles which gradu- 

 ally diminish posteriorly, and ai'e replaced by naked glossy black 

 spots (the derm), the darker shades are so arranged as to throw 

 the ashy portions into three or four large but very indistinct patches 

 on each elytron ; body beneath greyish, the abdominal segments 

 bordered with yellowish silky hairs, sides of the metasternum 

 spotted with ochre ; legs ferruginous brown, with long hairs and 

 little belts of greyish pile ; anterior coxae of the males with a 

 strong recurved spine ; fore-tibise in the same sex with a tooth on 

 the middle beneath. 



Length 9 lines. 



This is the only Australian Symphyletes that I have seen which 

 has a toothed protibia in the male. How far such a character is to 

 be depended on is a question to be solved. This and the four fol- 

 lowing species belong to a group which is characterized by its grey 

 or ashy colour, or both, more or less speckled with ochre-yellow. 

 The elytra also are marked with small impressed spots, irregu- 

 larly dispersed ; in these the pubescence is wanting, so that the 

 black derm becomes apparent. At the base of each spot a single 

 short whitish hair is often visible, and this with the aid of an 

 ordinary glass is seen to be considerably thicker than the rest. In 

 this complicated system of coloration, there are, first, the black, 



