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seated on the crown of the head and are somewhat approximate, they are of an oval 

 figure hut are produced into something like an angle at their extero-posterior extre- 

 mity, where their connexion with the lower eyes has been cut off by the scale or plate 

 already described ; the lower or cheek eyes are large, rounded and projecting, and also 

 exhibit something like an angle at the nearest point of approach to the upper eyes : 

 the colour of the head is testaceous, but a dark brown mark extends from each upper 

 eye to the anterior margin of the prothorax : the length of the prothorax is equal to 

 twice its width, and its width is almost exactly equal to that of the head : its figure is 

 cylindrical and its sides parallel, and unarmed by spine, tooth or tubercle ; its sur- 

 face is rough and devoid of all gloss ; its colour testaceous, with five blackish longi- 

 tudinal vittBB, one of which is dorsal, broad, irregular, and encloses an oblong testaceous 

 spot, the others are narrower and lateral ; scutellum rounded, black : elytra rather 

 wider than the prothorax, their sides nearly parallel, their apex rounded and unarmed ; 

 they are uniformly punctate, in colour nearly blacliwith various testaceous markings, 

 one of these occupies the humeral angle of each elytron, a second nearly joins this and 

 passes in a zigzag direction towards the suture, emitting amorphous branches towards 

 both extremities of the elytron ; between this and the apex are three longitudinal 

 marks on each, and of these that in the middle is widest and longest ; beneath testa- 

 ceous ; the metasternum divided by a deep longitudinal groove ; the legs, especially 

 the metafemora, of rather more than average length ; the exterior or apical half of 

 all the femora greatly thickened, the thickened portion of the metafemora and the 

 apices of the tibia brown, the rest of the legs testaceous. 

 Hab. — New Holland. In Mr. S. Stevens's collecton. 



Genus — Phoracantha, Newman. 



Phoracantha impavida, Mas. 



Antennae corpore valde longiores, articulis 3 — 5 apice l-spinosis ; prothorax dorso 

 rugosus, lateribus dente mediano minuto armatus : elytra aspere ac profundi 

 puncta, punctis apicem versus magnitudine pedetenthn decrescentibus : color nigro- 

 piceus, nitidus ; elytra testacea, macula utriusque basali, fascia* mediand undata, 

 fascia postmediand plagam suturalem adjungenti, nigerrimis. (Corp. long. V7 

 unc. Elylrorum lat. max. m 5 unc. Antennarum dilat. b'b unc.) 



A large and striking species allied to P. tricuspis (Entom. 3) but differs not only 

 in certain peculiarities of structure, but also superficially and strikingly in the distri- 

 bution of colour on the elytra ; of these the ground colour is testaceous, and the black 

 or rather pitchy-black markings are thus disposed ; the first is basal where it adjoins 

 the prothorax, but not extending to the humeral angle ; on each elytron it emits a 

 central pointed limb or tooth directed towards the apex, and at the suture it is pro- 

 longed until it unites with a very conspicuous zigzag fascia common to both elytra, 

 and which crosses them a little before the middle, forming a tolerably accurate letter 

 N on each, that on the right elytron being reversed ; below this zigzag fascia is a 

 large oval sutural blotch, extending almost to the anal angle and emitting from its 

 middle on each side a conspicuous ascending branch which just touches the costal 

 margin; exterior to the prominent humeral angle at the base of the inflected costal 

 margin of each elytron is an oblong black blotch. 



Hab. — North of New Holland. In Mr. S. Stevens's collection. 



