cxxiv Australian Coleoptera. 



Art. XVII. — Description of two Coleopterous Insects from New Holland. 

 By Edward Newman. 



Natural Order — Pseudomoephites. 

 Genus — Silphomorpha, Westivood. 



SlLPHOMORPHA ALBOPICTA. 



Nigra, prothoracis ehjtrorumque marginibus semihgalinis, ferrugineis, utriusque 

 elgtri macula magna subquadrata albidd. (Corp. long. "5 unc. Elytrorum lat. 

 max. '2b unv.) 



A very depressed scale-lite insect. Head black, minutely punctured, an oblong 

 fovea on eacb side in front of the eye : protborax black, its lateral margin dilated, 

 slightly diaphanous and broadly ferruginous, its anterior margin deeply excavated to 

 receive the head, and also deeply notched on each side behind the eye : elytra black, 

 with a dilated, recurved, semitransparent, ferruginous costal margin ; each has a large 

 yellowish-white patch on the anterior part of its disk ; this is somewhat lozenge- 

 shaped, but without angles. 



Hab. — Adelaide, South Australia, taken by Mr. Wilson, and in Mr. S. Stevens's 

 collection. 



Natural Order — Cebambycites. 



Genus — Phacodes, Newman. 



Phacodes Mossmanni. 



Fusca, viridi tincta ; elytra fascia medianet maculisque incertis, lanuginosis, canis, 

 ornata. (Corp. long. - 9 unc. Elytrorum lat. max. 3 unc.) 



Antennae of the male much longer than the body, and the joints long and slender ; 

 of the female scarcely so long as the body ; in both sexes gray, with the excep- 

 tion of the apices of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth joints, which are black and 

 shininf ". prothorax dull gray, with two fulvous, discoidal, abbreviated vitta?, each 

 of which includes, at its anterior extremity, a glabrous, black tubercle, and at its pos- 

 terior extremity a somewhat triangular, black, glabrous spot; centrally as regards 

 these four black marks is a fifth, elongate, attenuate at both ends, elevated and gla- 

 brous : elytra brown, with a tinge of green, and variegated with downy markings and 

 glabrous pustules ; the downy markings are generally gray, but on each elytron certain 

 of them assume the form of an oblique, somewhat vague white fascia about the 

 middle. 



Hab. — South Australia, found in a wood-hut by Mr. Mossmann, who has con- 

 signed several very beautiful specimens of this species, together with many other 

 interesting Australian insects, to the care of Mr. S. Stevens. 



Edward Newmav. 



EDWARD NEWMAN, PRINTER, 0, DEVONSHIRE STREET, BISHOFSGaTE. 



