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This is the species identified by Blackburn as H. 

 canescens, Hope ( = maculata, Haag.), and which I so con- 

 sidered in my Revision and Tabulation. (4) I have gladly 

 revived Bates' MSS. name. It is a short, robust species of 

 the carhonaria group, and easily distinguished from both H. 

 carbonaria, Germ., and H. cisteloides, Newm., by the larger 

 seriate punctures and minute punctures of intervals, inter 

 alia; from H. regularis, Macl., it is distinguished by colour, 

 pilose clothing, and smaller seriate punctures. Types in the 

 Author's Collection. 



HOMOTRYSIS VARIOLOSUS, U. Sp. 



Elongate-oblong, black, subnitid; pilose; extreme edge 

 of clypeus and of labrum pale red, antennae piceous, their 

 apical joints (also tarsi) reddish. 



Head coarsely punctate, eyes large and transverse, separ- 

 ated by a space of half the diameter of one eye; antennae 

 long and tapering, joints linear, 3-11 successively a little 

 shorter and finer than preceding. Prothorax widest at base, 

 sides parallel behind, lightly converging on apical half, apex 

 as wide as head, subtruncate at apex and base, posterior angles 

 rectangular, anterior obtuse; disc rugose-punctate, some fine 

 vermiculate ridges near centre, more clearly punctate at sides 

 and base; without medial impression, faintly depressed near 

 hind angles; sparsely clothed with long, upright, reddish 

 hairs. Scutellum triangular. Elytra considerably wider than 

 prothorax at base, and nearly thrice as long, shoulders fairly 

 prominent, sides a litle widened behind middle with narrow 

 horizontal border ; rather thickly clothed with upright hairs at 

 sides and apex; coarsely striate-punctate, the spaces between 

 intervals almost wholly occupied by a coarse system of irregular 

 punctures, varying from large irregularly-shaped ones (where 

 the intervals become, in consequence, undulate) to irregular 

 clusters of smaller ones (sometimes continued in a larger one) ; 

 intervals convex, a row of unusually large punctures on 

 extreme sides. E ^npl eurae , presternum, and m.etasternum 

 coarsely punctate, abdomen more finely so. Legs hairy and 

 punctate. Dim. — 12 x 4^ mm. 



Hal. — New South V/ales : Belltrees, near Scone (S. 

 Jackson). 



A single male example, remarkable for the combination 

 of elongate form, dark colour, hairy clothing, and unique 

 elytral sculpture (somewhat as in Hyhrenia occidentalis). 

 Type in Author's Collection. 



(4) L.C., pp. 80, 81. 



