554 Mr. Francis P. Pascoe's Notes on 



or Stenopterus rufus with Acyphoderes aurulentus. In Obrium can- 

 tkarinum the coxae are very nearly conical, while in the nearly 

 allied Axinopalpis gracilis they are so slightly produced, that 

 practically they may be defined as globose. All these genera, 

 according to some systematists, would be placed in a family co- 

 equal with Prionidce and Lamiidcs that has Molorchus for its 

 type. Obrium and Molorchus, however, I consider represent re- 

 spectively two very distinct sub-families. 



1. Elete inscripta. (PI. XXII. fig. 2.) 

 E. livida, vittis fuscis figurata ; femoribus intermediis et pos- 



ticis, basibus exceptis, fuscis. 

 Sydney. 



Livid yellow, with a short seta-like pubescence, and marked 

 with a few longitudinal or zigzag lines ; head exserted, with a 

 short narrow front strongly sulcated between the insertion of the 

 antennae ; a black stripe behind the eyes ; mandibles porrect ; lip 

 very small ; palpi truncate ; eyes prominent, completely divided, 

 the upper pair subapproximate, the lower remote ; antennae 

 longer than the body, setaceous, slightly pilose, the basal joint 

 claviform, the third shorter than the fourth, with a fine spine at the 

 apex, the fourth longest, the rest gradually diminishing to the 

 last ; prothorax about twice as long as broad, irregularly cylin- 

 drical, with a broad central and a narrow black stripe at the side ; 

 scutellum triangular, rather closely covered with fine diverging 

 hairs; elytra elongate,gradually narrowing behind, the apex truncate 

 with numerous setiferous punctures, and marked on the shoulder 

 and behind the middle with dark brown irregular and nearly lon- 

 gitudinal lines ; body beneath testaceous, finely punctured ; legs 

 slender, femora clavate, the clavate portion of the middle and pos- 

 terior femora dark brown. 



Length 6 lines. 



Genus Hesthesis. 

 1 . Hesthesis angidatus. 

 H. ater ; elytris divergentibus, postice flavo-raaculatis ; abdo- 



mine supra duabus infra tribus fasciis flavis. 

 King George's Sound ? 



Black ; base of the elytra greyish ; front, anterior and posterior 

 margins of the prothorax, a round spot on each elytron posteriorly, 

 a patch on the episterna of the metathorax, a band on the first and 



