BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 
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surface consists of large punctures which are neither deep nor 
close, from each of which a strong erect hair springs. The elytra 
have scarcely any indication of stride ; their sculpture consists of 
large and small punctures (the large ones smaller than those of 
the prothorax, and bearing hairs which are finer than those of the 
prothorax) rather confusedly mingled ; the lateral fringe is 
continuous round the apex, which has a very wide membranous 
border. The metasternum and hind coxae (especially the latter) 
are faintly punctured — -particularly in the middle — and are very 
nitid ; the ventral segments are sub-opaque and lightly punctured — 
moderately at the sides, sparingly in the middle. The ventral 
series consist of long hairs, and are much confused with other 
hairs. The hind femora are not much wider than the intei’- 
mediate, their inner apical portion well defined and knife-edge- 
like, but not sharply angled. The hind coxse are much shorter 
than the metasternum, but considerably longer on the external 
margin than the second ventral segment. The pygidium presents 
the unusual character of being somewhat strongly inclined under 
the body (instead of vertical or nearly so, as in most species of 
the genus). 
Near Adelaide. 
H. RUBESCENS, Blaucli. 
II. rubesceas, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 111. 
1 have before me specimens from Kangaroo Island of an insect 
which I have no doubt is this Species. As tlie original description 
is very V>rief I here supidy a fuller one. 
Moderately elongate, and but little dilated behind. Of a 
shining piceous colour tending to I’eddish, — es})ccially on the 
I>rothorax, — the antennm and pal})i testaceous red, the legs pitchy 
red. The labrum is turned iipward as in the species of Sect, iii., 
but does not quite reach the level of the surface of the clypeus. 
The clypeus is widely and gently emarginate (chiefiy in an upward 
direction, i.«., through the transverse c Jiivexity of its front) and 
its refiexed margin is continuous ; it forms a nearly even plane 
