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Museum one of the specimens of the species taken by Beccari 

 sA> Aru, and it agrees exactly with several specimens from 

 North Queensland t fi > in my collection. 



Both genus (7 ) and species are now first recorded as 

 Australian. 



SUBFAMILY ERIRHINIDES. 



MlSOPHRlCE. 



This genus hitherto has been unrecorded from Queens- 

 land, a gap I am now happy to fill by the record of three 

 species taken at Dalby on Casuarinas by Mrs. F. H. Hobler. 

 Of these one is represented by two abraded specimens, that 

 appear to belong to setuiosa, whilst the others are new, and 

 together with two others that have been recently obtained, 

 •are described hereunder. 



MlSOPHRlCE HOBLERI, n. Sp. 



Black, scape and basal joint of funicle reddish. Densely 

 •clothed with black and green, or golden green, or silvery 

 green scales. Elytra with long suberect blackish hairs, pro- 

 thorax and head with much shorter hairs or setae. 



Rostrum thin, moderately curved, about as long as pro- 

 thorax and finely carinated towards base. Scape thin but 

 apex somewhat inflated ; first joint of funicle about as long 

 as three following combined. Prothorax moderately trans- 

 verse, sides strongly and evenly rounded ; with rather coarse, 

 partially-concealed punctures. Elytra at base distinctly wider 

 than prothorax, shoulders square, sides parallel to rear apex ; 

 with regular rows of large, suboblong, partially-concealed 

 punctures. Legs rather long; front coxae almost touching. 

 Length, 2-2J mm. 



Bab.— Queensland: Dalby (Mrs. F. H. Hobler). 



A beautiful species with outlines as in many species of 

 ■Cydmcea. The long fine hairs on the elytra are very different 

 to the stout conspicuous setae of hispida. 



On the under-surface the scales are rather longer, paler, 

 and more uniform than on the upper, where the paler ones 

 vary from silvery- to golden-green, and occasionally (as also 

 on the legs) are of a fiery-golden colour ; they cover a greater 

 space than the black ones ; these on the prothorax are almost 

 •confined to a fairly wide median space ; on each elytron they 

 are in two large blotches (scarcely fasciae), one at about basal 

 third, the other about apical third, the subapical one being 

 occasionally continued almost to apex, and feebly connected 



(6) Mulgrave River, Cairns and Kuranda. 



(7) Schoenherr, Mantissa Secunda, 1847, p. 69. 



