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that of Aphanasinm australe, its hind tarsi (especially the basal 

 ioiiit) are evidently less elongate, and its eyes (in the male) are 

 less widely separated above, but I do not find any other struc- 

 tural character inconsistent with its being congeneric with 

 A australe, :ilthough it is very unlike it in size and colouring. 

 It is quite possible that the form of the abdomen may be to some 

 extent due to abnormal shrinkage in drying, and as the compara- 

 tive approximation of the eyes is not a good generic character, 

 there remains only the form of the hind tarsi, and this seems to 

 me scarcely a sufficient character to require the creation ot a new 



generic name. . i • \ 



In some respects (especially in the colouring and markings) 

 this species resembles Didymocantha ohliqua, Newm., which I 

 cannot regard as at home among the Callidiop sides, where M. 

 Lacordaire places it, its fades being extremely unlike Calhdiopsis, 

 and the structure of its intermediate coxa being difierent from 

 that o-enus. As, however, the meso-thoracic epimera m the 

 present insect are in contact with the intermediate coxw and are 

 separated from them in Didymocantha, the two could not m 

 Lacordaire's classification be associated. 



It should be noted that the underside of the four posterior 

 femora in this species is concave longitudinally, and is hUed 

 (probably in the male only) with short woolly pubescence. 

 A variegatum, sp. nov. (Mas). Modice elongatum, sat pai'alleluni ; 

 ni'^rum, elytris (his fusco-notatis) metasteriio medio coxis 

 femorum basi summa tibiarum parte basali dimidia tarsis et 

 antennis lividis, harum articulis 1° (basi summa exoepta) o 

 —5° (ad apicem summum) 6° 7° que m parte apicali dimidia 

 infuscatis; sparsim pubescens; capite brevi sat fortiter sat 

 crebre punctulato ; prothorace sat transverso, ut caput 

 punctulato, 1 1 - tuberculato [sc. ante basin transversim 

 5-tuberculato (tuberculis externis spiniformibus), pone apicem 

 4-tuborculato, et utrinque tuberculo lateral! mediano munitoj 

 sic ut latera de super visis tuberculos tres (horum posteriori 

 spiniformi) prtebent ; elytris ad apicem rotundatis, obsoletis- 

 sime bicostatis, quam prothorax pauUo minus crebre punct- 

 ulatis, notis fusco-nigris ornatis (sc. linea a humeris 

 retrorsum et suturam versus arcuata, macula margmali mox 

 pone basin, fascia mediana sat angusta in sutura retrorsum 

 producta) et apicem versus indeterminate mfuscatis ; 

 antennis sat compressis, quam corpus sesquilongioribus, 

 articulis 1° 3° 4° que inter se longitudme sat lequalibus, 

 ceteris sat longioribus ; femoribus 4 posticis subtus long- 

 itudinaliter depressis et dense breviter lanuginosis. Long., 

 7 ]. ; lat., If 1. 

 The prothorax l}earing two well-defined tubercles and a spine 



