180 



DD. Punctures of 1st and 3rd ely- 

 tra! striae much smaller than 

 of 2nd (colour of elytra 



green) piliger, Blanch. 



BB. Flabellum of male antenna notably 

 longer than the preceding joints 



together (colour black) nigrescens, Blanch. 



AA. Legs green hetus, Blanch. 



S. monticola, sp. nov. Supra pallide vel obscure brunnea, 

 subtus nigra vix viridescens, palpis antennisque (harum 

 nabello nonnullorum exemplorum dilutiori exoepto) 

 clypeo pedisbusque dilute vel obscure ferrugineis ; tota 

 (elytris sparsim exceptis) dense pilosa ; clypeo antice 

 parum emarginato, crebre rugulose punctulato ; 

 fronte pronotoque minus subtiliter sat crebre punctulatis ; 

 hoc quam longiori ut 20 ad 11 latiori, antice fortiter 

 angustato, lateribus (superne visis) fere rectis (a latere 

 visis pone medium sinuatis), basi sat fortiter bisinuata; 

 scutello puncturis sparsis impresso ; elytris paullo ante 

 apicem transversim obtuse prominentibus, fortiter punc- 

 tulato -striatis, striis pills brevibus sat adpressis seriatim 

 sparsim instructis ; pygidio crebre subtilius ruguloso ; cor- 

 pore subtus subtiliter crebre (abdomine minus crebre) 

 punctulato. 



Maris antennarum nabello quam articuli ceteri conjuncti 

 manifeste breviori, articulo 4° intus spiniformi. 



Feminse antennarum nabello quam maris, et illius 

 articulo basali quam ceteris, multo brevioribus ; anten- 

 narum. articulo 4° haud spinifero. Long., 9-10 1.; lat. , 

 5J-5| 1. 



A single example of this insect occurred to me on the 

 Victorian Alps, flying in the sunshine, and recently Mr. H. 

 J. Carter has sent me several specimens taken by him on 

 Mount Kosciusko. The latter are all darker in colour than 

 the former, though one of them is distinctly lighter than the 

 other. The Victorian specimen has much more numerous 

 short hairs in the elytral striae than those from New South 

 Wales ; in fact, they run in regular series in all the striae, 

 while in those from New South Wales there are only a few 

 here and there to be seen. My specimen was pinned and 

 mounted at once when taken. The pilosity of all the Stethas- 

 pides of which I can speak from experience is so easily 

 rubbed off that I think immediate mounting is necessary to 

 secure specimens from abrasion. The puncturation of the 

 pronotum is considerably stronger and closer than that of 

 6'. Eucalypti, Boisd. 



Higher mountains of Victoria and New South Wales. 



