BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 
1463 
Apart from colour resembles the male of T. hamata described 
above, but -with the lateral spines of the prothorax very nearly 
straight, the punctures of the front part of the elytra different 
Cmuch more separated from each other by defined intervals), the 
hind tibi® very nearly straight, and (especially) the 12th joint of 
the antenn® as distinct as any of the other joints. 
Fowler’s Bay ; taken by Prof. Tate. 
X.B. — A 5 Tryphocharia taken at the same time and place by 
Prof. Tate is evidently this species though differing from the male 
as follows ; much larger (20 lines), antenn® decidedly shorter than 
the body with the 12th joint very little developed; prothorax 
evidently narrowed from base to apex and having shorter lateral 
spines ; elytra less strongly bispinose at the apex, each (in 
addition to the marking described above) with a large elongate 
fuscous blotch on the disc a little before the middle (probably this 
is an individual rather than a sexual character), legs and antenn® 
testaceous-brown. 
COPTOCERCUS. 
C. NIGRITULUS, sp.nov. 
Xigro-piceus, elytris singulis macula parva antemediana, fascia 
lata mediana et macula magna apicali instructis ; his fere ad 
apicem fortiter punctulatis, apice emarginato-truncato, truncatura 
exteme fortiter spinosa ; prothorace tuberculis 4 nitidis instructis, 
disco nitide lanceoiato-elevato, lateribus obtuse tuberculatis. 
[Long. 5, lat. 2? lines. 
The whole insect (except the yellow marks on the elytra, and 
the palpi which are reddish brown) is almost unicolorous, the 
legs and antenn® liaving only a very sliglit reddish tone. The 
puncturation of the elytra is coarse and close at the base, becomes 
even more so about the middle, and in the apical third becmnes 
closer and less strong to near the apex, and even there it can 
hardly be called obsolete. The prothora.x is not longer than wide. 
On the elytra there is a very small obscure yellow spot between the 
margin and the antemedian spot, the postmediau fascia narrows 
from the lateral margin to the suture but does not quite touch 
