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shining derm, visible wherever the pubescence is thin or wanting; 

 secondly, the ochre-yellow spots on a grey or ashy ground, or 

 both, the yellow portion being frequently more raised than the 

 rest, while the ashy or sometimes nearly white part forms a band 

 near the middle, or has a certain tendency to do so, and also a 

 patch at the side before the band ; and thirdly, a number of small 

 shining granular tubercles, nearly always confined to the base, 

 and disposed either irregularly or in three rows. It is to be 

 hoped that this explanation will facilitate the comprehension of 

 these descriptions, as the group is an exceedingly difficult one to 

 portray. 



7. Symphyletes solutus. 

 S. dense cinereo-albo-pubescens, maculis pallide ochraceis 



irroratus ; prothorace subtransverso, lateribus baud dentato ; 



elytris basi vix tuberculatis, apice oblique sinuatis, bispinosis. 

 Port Denison. 



Covered with a close ashy-white pubescence, varied with a 

 darker ashy and speckled with light ochre ; head whitish, with 

 ochre markings on the vertex, and white hairs on the face ; an- 

 tennae ciliated beneath, with long white hairs at the base ; pro- 

 thorax shorter than broad, corrugated above and particularly 

 towards the sides, one of the anterior folds forming a slight pro- 

 jection at the side, but no tooth ; scutellum somewhat triangular, 

 the sides rounded ; elytra broadest at the shoulder, narrowing 

 posteriorly, the apex of each very hairy and obliquely sinuate 

 with two small spines, the base with a few very small tubercles, 

 which are nearly enveloped in the pubescence, and several black, 

 impressed spots along the side, there are also about three very 

 indistinct paler patches on the side of each, nearly in the middle ; 

 abdomen silvery-grey, the segments bordered at the side with 

 pale yellow ; sides of the metasternum with ochre spots ; legs fer- 

 ruginous brown, with long hairs and little belts of greyish pile. 



Length 9 lines. 



It will be seen from the description, that in many respects this 

 species resembles the last. It differs, however, not only in its 

 lighter colour, but in the more transverse and corrugated pro- 

 thorax, and in the more triangular form of the scutellum, and the 

 smaller tubercles on the elytra, which are scarcely perceptible 

 without the aid of a good lens. The lower portion of the eye, 

 also, is much smaller and more widely separated from its fellow. 



