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on each side, together with the colouring and the elytral 

 pattern resembling the same in Didymocantha ohliqua, Newm. 

 and the bright livid patch in the middle of the metasternum, will 

 render this species easy of identification. 

 Mui-chisou District. 



APOSITES. 



A. niger, Blackburn. Murchison District. 



A. lanaticoUis, Blackbuni. Murchison District. 



STEPIIANOPS. 



, *S. iiasHta, ISTewniau. Albany. 



SYLLITUS. 



S. grammicus, Newman. Fraser Range. 



S. uniformis, sp. nov. Supra ferrugineus, antennarum artieulo 

 basali femoribus tibiisque concoloribus, antennis (artieulo 

 basali excepto) capite tarsiscjue dilutioribus, prothorace plus 

 minus infuscato ; corpore subtus (capite excepto) nigricanti ; 

 prothorace quam latiori paullo longiori, ab apice ad' medium 

 sat cylindrico, a medio ad basin leviter rotundato-ampliato, 

 supra vix inajquali, crebre subtiliter ruguloso ; elytris modice 

 (quam prothorax minus crebre minus subtiliter) ruguloso- 

 punctulatis, costis discoidalihus binis sat parallelis instructis. 

 Long., 3| — 3-| I.; lat., J 1. 



Very distinct from the previously described species of the 

 genus by reason of the dark ferruginous general colour of its upper- 

 surface, the elytral costie being concolorous and only the head 

 exhibiting a brighter reddish tone. 



Fraser Range ; I have this species also from S. Australia. 



.MICEOTKAGUS. 



M. viaculMus, Blackburn. Nilpena or thereabouts. 



IIEBESECIS. 



//. fasnculatus, sp. nov. Niger, tomento nigro-grisco et fusco 

 variegatus, antennarum basi tibiisque nonnullorum exem- 

 plorum rufescentibus; capite prothoraceque spinoso confertim 

 punctulatis ; elytris profunde seriatim punotulatis, in dorso 

 pone basin tuberculo nigro-fasciculato et altero minori pone 

 medium ornatis ; antennis pubescentibus, pube in articulis 

 30 40 50 JO q^g ^^^ ^^^^^^ go go qyg ^.^^.^g a,ii-,;da. Long , 



4i— 5 1; lat., 1|— 2§ L 

 This species seems very distinct from any other yet described. 

 The arrangement of the colours of the tomentum on the upper 

 surface is very much as in H. australis, Boisd., but the pubes- 

 cence of the sides of the prothorax (which has no dorsal impres- 



