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sion) is of a pale-greyish colour, and the antennse are very 

 differently coloured ; the basal half (or more) of joints 3 and 4, 

 the basal one-third of joints 5 and 7, and the whole of joints 

 6 and 8 being clothed with whitish pubescence, joints 9 to il 

 and the appendiculate 12th joint being of an obscure patchy 

 colour inclining more or less to grey or blackish m different 

 examples. The pubescence of the underside and legs is whitish, 

 and is somewhat close and even, scarcely interrupted or spotted 

 except by the very coarse granulose-punctu ration of the meta- 

 sternum The antenna are about half again as long as the body 

 in the male, not much longer than the body in the female. Of 

 the other species of the genus having pilose elevations on the 

 elytra R. hasalis, Pasc, is very differently coloured and has only 

 one elevation on each elytron ; H. cristata, Pasc, inter aha has 

 the antennse of the male more than twice as long as the body , 

 and H. niphonoides, Pasc, has two costse on the elytra and tlie 

 tibiiB marked with rings of brown pilosity. The posterior eleva- 

 tions on the elytra in this species^ are much smaller than the 

 anterior ones, but are quite well-defined. 



Fraser Range ; also in my collection from other places in W. 

 Australia. 



SYMPHILETES. 



S framremi^^, sp. nov. Ferrugineus, capite antennis femoriljus 

 tibiis prothorace antice ad latera scutello et corpore subtus 

 (lateribus summis exceptis) albido-pubescentibus, elytris 

 fulvo-pubescentibus, pone et circa scutellum et m sutura 

 crriseo-pubescentibus(linea suturali serie macularuin nigrarum 

 variegata), ad latera vitta niveo-argentea lata ornatis (hac a 

 basi apicem attingenti, ad basin breviter angustata, margine 

 superiori insigniter serrato) humeris fere nigris ; antennis 

 quam corpus maris pauUo longioribus, femmre vix brev- 

 ioribus ■ prothorace leviter transverso, subcylindrico, minus 

 imequali, supra sat crebre sat subtiliter rugato ; elytris 

 leviter minus subtiliter punctulatis, in parte dimidia basah 

 sat fortiter granulatis, ad apicem leviter emargmatis 

 barbatis; coxis anticis inermibus. Long., 81.; lat., 2f 1. 

 The ineimality of the surface of the prothorax is very slight 

 and ill-defined, consisting of little more than a transverse 

 depression near the front, and another (the stronger of the two) 

 near the base. The prothorax has no indication oi tubercles 

 except a small tubercle (or large granule) on each side near the 

 front The most distinctive characters of this species seem to be 

 the dense white pubescence entirely clothing the head and 

 antenna, the very conspicuous leaden-grey pubescence of the 

 suture bearing (on each elytron) a row of round black spots, and 



