S30 The Insect Fmina of Van Diemen's Land. 



V. D. Land: thougli resembling HespherojjJianes Dej. in 

 appearance, it differs from it in some cliaracteristics, and is 

 arranged by Newman as the genus Phacodes (*) ; one of its 

 species Fh, ohscurus (t)j was brought home by Banks, a 

 second is uqw. The group of Stenopterce affords one new 

 genus, Mecynopus, remarkable for the great length of its 

 antennae and hinder legs. 



The paucity of Lamia is remarkable ; it presents but one 

 species of the genus Zygocera, peculiar to New Holland. 

 Saperda is equally limited to one, (unusually small) species, 

 which forms the new genus Illcena. Ihe group oi LepdurcB 

 is represented in New Holland by Stenoderus : our collections 

 contain only the known species 8t. ahhreviatus (J) and 

 ceramboides (§). 



Of the Chrysomelin(B. We have not received as yet a single 

 species of the groups Eupoda and Cassidaria j we must not, 

 however, thence infer that these divisions, though represented 

 in New Holland by but few species, are entirely wanting in 

 Van Diemen^s Land : certain it is, that New Holland cannot 

 compare with South America in the number of its Cassidi. 

 Among the Chrysomelce, the genus Faropsis 01. (JSfotoclea 



1840, p. 33. Hope briiig-s forward also Uracantlius pallens, (Proceed, of the Zool. 

 Sac, 1840, p. 53.) and Newman, AmpMrhoe decora. (Entomologist, 1841, p. 25.) as 

 natives of Van Diemen's Land. 



(*) Newman, ibid, p. 7. The third and fifth antenndee joints are described as hav- 

 ing one spine at the tip, but tliis is scarcely correct. 



(+j CaUidiim obscurum, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. II. 333. 1. Olivier, Ent, IV. 70, 9, 7. 

 4, f. 45. Phacodes lentiginosus, Newman, Entomologist. 1841, p. 8. It is strange 

 that in London an insect is described as new, which must be found in Banks' Cabinet. 



{t) Ceranibyx ahhreviatus. Vahv.Sysi.'EAevXh. 11.275,44. Stenocliorus suturalis, 

 Olivier, Ent. IV. 69, 2 9 25, t. 3. f. 29. 



(?) Zeptera ceroiw&02(^es, Kirby, Trans, of the Linn Soc, XII. 472, 25, t. 23, f. 11. 

 MacLeay (King's Narrat. II. 451, 87.) considers both msects to be one and the same 

 the differences being merely sexual ; but this is scarcely probable, Newman is also of 

 the same opinion, (Entomologist, 1841, p. 35. 



Maorones exilis, is a Van Diemen's Land insect, nearly allied to Stenoclertts, Newm. 

 Entomologist, 1841. p. 35. 



