The Insect Fmala of Van Blemen^s Land. 329 



The group of Prione, in the family of Ceramhycince, sends 

 us two species : one^ a new one^ belongs to the genus 

 Macrotonia, which is found in Southern Europe, the East 

 Indies and New Holland, but principally in Africa : the 

 other, described by Fabricius as Friomis arcuatus, forms a 

 distinct, and in many respects a remarkable new genus, 

 Oncinotiis. 



The group of Stenocoridae occupies a prominent 

 position among the CeramhyciiKB : the typical form, which 

 still retains the generic name, Stenocorus {*), has afforded us 

 one new species, Hope's St. longipennis (t) and assimilis (J) 

 from the division having 2 spined antenuEe, neck-plate and 

 wing-cases, St. elongatus (§) and r/^ci»?^^/'er (||) from that 

 having a jagged neck-plate, ^cud^St.scidellaris i^) from its 

 having jagged neck-plate, antennse not spined, and wing- 

 cases rounded at the tip. Of the genera allied to Stenoconis we 

 have received Hope's Trachelorachysfwmicolor i**), Meropa- 

 chys MacLeayi{-\-\) , Scolecohrotus Westwoodii (J J), and anew 

 species. The group of Callidice presents one form peculiar to 



(*) Hope, Transact, of the Zool, See. I. p. 107. Newman, Annals of Natur, Hist. V, 

 p, 17, calls it Phoracantha, Dejean includes it under Mallocera, 



(+) Hope, Proceed, of the Zool. Soc. 1840.p. 47, 3. PJioracantha hamata J^ewman 

 Entomologist, 1841. p. 3, is only a variety ; one of the specimens sent in comes very 

 near to it, but it is deficient in the dark, transverse marking. 



(t) Hope, Proceed, of the Zool. Soc. 1840, p, 49, 11. Plioracantha allapsa Newman, 

 Entomologist 1841, p. 4, Hope, (a, a. O, p. 47, n, 6, 7) assigns also 8t, Ohscurus and 

 punctatios Don, Epit.ofthelns, of New Holland to VanDiemen's Land, 



(2) Boisd, Faun, de I'ocean, 478, 6,: Stenochorus uniguttatus, (MacLeay,) Hope, 

 Proceed, of the Zool, Soc, 1840, y, 49, It seems widely distributed, as Hope obtained 

 it from Swan River, 



(II) Hope, Proceed, of the Zool, Soc. 1840, 49, It resembles the smaller specimens of 

 the former species, but is distinguished by the situation of the spots, and the very 

 short, scarcely visible spine at the extremity of the wing-cases, 



(IT) Gallidmm scutellare Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. II. 538, 26, ISov. Gen. piceum,'Sew- 

 man. Entomologist, 1841, p. 9. I am surprised that Hope does not mention this 

 beetle, as it is not by any means rare. 



(**) Hope, Proceed, of the Zool. Soc, 1840, p- 51. Hope is of opinion that his second 

 species also. Tr.pustui.aius, comes from Van Diemen's Land, (Hobart Town.) 



(++) Hope, ditto, p. 52. 



(tt) Hope, Transact, of the Zool. Soc. I. p. 109, t. 15, f. 5. Proceed, of the Zool. Soc. 



