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LOUD HOWE ISLAND. 



Phacodes obsctjeus, Fair. 

 Fltacodes ohscurus, "Fabricius, Mant. Ins., I, p. 151 ; Blanctard, Voy. Pole 

 Sud, IV, p. 271, pi. 17, fig. 13. 

 A single exam[)lo of tliis widely-distributed Australian species. 



^Cekesium simplex, Gyll. 

 Stenoclwnis simplex, Gyllenhal, Scb5n. Syst. Ins., App. I, p. 178. 



A widely-distributed and variable species, which ranges from the Philip- 

 pines to Incw Zealand. 



Ceeesium, sp. 

 A species allied to C. pacliyineriun, Pasc, but with the prothorax broader 

 and the legs darker in colour. 



PIemesthoceea elatiltnea, Neimn. 

 Ilemestlwcera flavilinea. Newman, Zool., 1850, p. Ill ; White, Cat. Long. 

 Brit. Mus., VIII, pi. 6, fig. 2. 



This somewhat local Australian species appears to be common in the 

 island. 



Clytus atjStealis, Lap. &; Gory. 

 Chjtus australis, Laporte & Gory, Men., p. 99, pi. 19, fig. 118. 



Widely distributed, ranging from Australia and New Gruinea to the 

 Philippine Islands. 



*Blax Wollastoni, White. 

 Deucalion Wollastoni, White, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., XXIV, j)- 406, pi. 40, 

 fig. 6 (1856)— iJfoa,' Wollastoni, Thomson, Class. Long., p. 23 (1860). 



Tliis species apjjears to be tolerably common. t 



Xyloteles seg;eex, sp. nov. 



Elongate, sidi-cvlindrical, somewhat narrowed both in front and behind, 

 piceous, tinged with bronze-green, rather thickly clothed with gray pubes- 

 cence ; elytra striate, rather strongly j)uncturod at the base, each with a 

 patch of dusky white pubescence near the apex. 



Head transverse, finely pubescent, with a distinct median line. Antenna) 

 pitchy, finely pubescent, the bases of joints 3 — 11 inclining to reddish 

 testaceous. Prothorax about as broad as long, very finely and not very 

 closely punctured, with two moderately-impressed transverse lines, one near 

 the anterior margin, the other near the base. Scutellum closely covered 

 with fine yellowish-white pubescence. Elytra somewhat narrowed behind, 

 moderately distinctly striate, with longitudinal series of punctures near the 

 base, which are efTaced posteriorly, closely covered with fine gray pubes- 

 cence ; the sides sub-parallel, gradually rounded to the apex, which is not 

 produced. Legs finely pubescent ; the tibia; and tarsi inclining to reddish 

 testaceous. Length 6 — 9 mm. 



Allied to Xyloteles f/riseus, Pabr., and X. Pattesoni, Oil. ; compared with 

 the latter it is decidedly more pubescent, and has the elytra less narrowed 

 posteriorly. 



SOMATTDIA PTJLCHELIA, Sp. UOV. 

 Plate VI, f . 4, 



Elongate, very convex, narrowed botli in front and behind, bronze green, 

 shining, tinged with purple, very sparingly clothed with erect testaceous 

 sets ; elytra strongly punctured near the base ; antennas, tibiae, and tarsi 

 pale reddish testaceous ; femora fuscous. 



1 1 tate it that Slapsilon irroratutn, a New Caledonian form, ia erroneously recorded 

 from Lord Howe Island in the explanalionof Plate V, in the Journal of Entomology (vol. i, 

 ]). 132), as no reference is male to the locality in Mr. Paseoe's text. 



