cxvi Mr. E. Nemmaris Descriptions 



Cerambyx? subserbatus. 



Fiiscus, vtroque elytro albido vittato : arttennis brevioribus, subserratis. {Corp. 

 long. 1 uric. Elytrorum lat. max. 3 unc.) 



Antennae rather more than half the length of the hody, 11-jointed; the terminal 

 joint longer than the rest and flattened, the preceding joints from the fourth to the 

 eighth inclusive set on obliquely, and produced at the apex into a kind of tooth, which 

 gives the antenna a serrated appearance ; they are of a pale brown colour inclining to 

 testaceous ; the eyes are large andreniform, deeply notched to receive the base of the 

 antenns. The prothorax is rather broader than the head, rather longer than broad, 

 and has parallel sides without armature ; it exhibits no division into dorsal and sternal 

 surfaces ; it is very uneven, being pitted with large, deep, confluent punctures, except 

 a small glabrous spot in the very centre of its dorsal surface. Elytra manifestly 

 broader than the prothorax, flattened dorsally, with parallel sides, and each rounded 

 at the internal apical angle ; at the base they are impressed with large, deep, and 

 often confluent punctures, but these become smaller and more distant before the mid- 

 dle, and in the lower half, which is highly polished, the punctures are small and 

 distant ; the colour of the elytra is clear brown, or dirty, semitestaceous white ; the 

 brown occupies the base, and is slightly prolonged on the costa, but is interrupted by 

 the white rather before the middle ; it then recommences, is continued to the apex, 

 and returns along the suture to beyond the middle ; the white occupies the remainder 

 of each elytron. The meso- and metathorax have a lateral patch of whitish hairs. 

 The legs are short, scarcely extending beyond the apex of the abdomen ; they are of 

 a pale brown like the antenna?, and, as well as the under surface generally, are 

 sprinkled over with pale hairs : each segment of the abdomen has two small patches 

 of pale hairs. 



Hab. — The vicinity of Richmond or Clarence River, New Holland. In the col- 

 lection of Mr. S. Stevens. 



I look forward with considerable pleasure to the publication of something 

 like a digest of the Australian Cerambycida ; unless the task should fall into abler 

 hands, I trust this may be accomplished during the approaching winter. I need 

 scarcely say how much I should feel indebted to entomologists who will assist me with 

 the loan of specimens, descriptions or figures, or who will refer me to specimens, de- 

 scriptions or figures which they may not be able to lend : in the mean time I fear to 

 create new genera in cases where an insect can possibly be referred to any already 



existing. 



Edwabd Newman. 



Art. XII. — Description of a Pentamerous Coleopterous Insect from New Holland. 

 By Edwabd Newman. 



Stirps — Prionocera. 



Natural Order — Melyrites? 



Genus — Agasma, Newman. 



Caput exserlum, porrectum, oculis mediocribus, reniformibus, antennis filiformibus, 

 corporis dimidio vix longioribus,\\-arlicvlalis ; prothorax obcordatus, postice 

 truncatus ; elytra prothorace latiora utroque G-carinuto. 



