564 Mr. Francis P. Pascoe's Notes on 



punctures ; scutellura narrowly subtriangular ; elytra dark brown, 

 covered with coarse confluent punctures, with two narrow zig-zag, 

 ivory-like white bands, the upper not meeting at the suture ; body 

 beneath obscure luteous ; legs dark brown ; femora strongly 

 clavate, slender at the base. 



Length Sg lines. 



Allied to Callidium cleroides, White, but with more tapering 

 elytra, irregular angulated bands, and thicker antennae. 



Genus Brachytria. 

 1. Brachytna centralis. 



B. vix angustata ; elytris lineis duabus longitudinalibus elevatis ; 

 scutello apice acuto. 



Port Denison, 



Proportionally shorter than B. gulosa, and sparsely covered 

 with slender erect black hairs; head and prothorax luteous-yellow, 

 coarsely punctured, the latter rounded and nearly equal in breadth 

 and length ; scutellum narrow, acutely triangular, black ; elytra 

 with the sides nearly parallel, slightly projecting at the shoulder, 

 the apex rounded, coarsely punctured, bright blue, a large pale 

 straw-coloured patch principally before the middle, on each elytron 

 two well marked raised lines running from the shoulder to the 

 apex ; body beneath, except the propectus and throat, antennae 

 and legs, black ; propectus and throat luteous. 



Length 4 lines. 



Described from a single example, and therefore, knowing how 

 variable is its congener Brachytna gulosa* 1 have said nothing 

 about the colour in the diagnosis, the species being well dis- 

 tinguished by having only two elevated lines on each elytron, and 

 the apex of its scutellum acute. It appears to me that Brachytria 

 latehrosa and B. jmlcherrima would be better placed with Pyiheus, 

 if both genera are to be retained. 



Genus Pempsamacra. 

 1. Pempsamacra subaurea. 

 P. fusca, squamis aureo-brunneis tecta ; prothorace postice bi- 



calloso, lateribus subintegro ; elytris maculis duabus fuscis. 

 Sydney. 

 Chesnut brown, covered with dark golden yellow scales above ; 



* This species varies from almost entirely black to black, with more or less 

 yellow or white, and red ; and from a prothorax strongly corrugated and opaque 

 to one perfectly smooth and glossy. 



