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suggest the idea of a Tarsostenus ; indeed Macleay himself says 

 that the insect has the appearance of a Tillus. I suspect, how- 

 ever, that it is congeneric with the species described below as 

 Tarsostenodes simulator. 



tarsostenodes (gen. nov. Cleridarum). 

 Palporum articulus apicalis securiformis ; labrum transversum 

 antice emarginatum ; antennae modicse (prothoracis basin vix 

 superantes), clava 3-articulata distincta articulis prsecedenti- 

 bus 4 conjunctis longitudine sat sequali ; oculi modici, supra 

 inter se sat distantes, fortiter convexi, sat subtiliter granu- 

 lati, subrotundati, antice emarginati ; prothorax elongatus, 

 antice elongato - globulosus postice sub - tubuliformis 

 (Homcemotce prothoracera simulans) ; elytra longissima 

 angusta apicem versus sat abrupte (nonnihil globulose) 

 dilatata, nee tuberculata nee fasciculata, notulis eburneis, 

 ornata ; pedes sat elongati, femoribus posticis elytrorum 

 apicem haud attingentibus, tarsis 5-articulatis, articulo 

 basali (tarsorum omnium) superne haud manifesto ; ungui- 

 culis subappendiculatis ; corpus angustissimum, capillis 

 erectis vestitum. 



The insect for which I propose this name mimics in a very 

 remarkable manner Longicorn genera such as Homcemota or 

 Zoedia, in company with which I found it on flowers. I think it 

 should be placed near Tarsostenus, from which inter alia the 

 raised ivory-like markings on its elytra readily distinguish it. 

 Clerus guttulus, White, is a member of this genus. 



T. simulator, sp. nov. Subopacus ; liete viridis, labro palpis 

 antennis pedibus scutello et pectore rufo-testaceis, elytris 

 (basi apiceque late viridibus exceptis) rufo-cupreis, his lineis 

 elevatis eburneis binis obliquis ornatis (sc. linea brevi ante- 

 mediana a margine externo retrorsum, et linea longiori post< 

 mediana a margine externo antrorsum, directis) ; capite 

 pronotoque confertim subtilius rugulosis ; elytris a basi 

 ultra medium aequaliter vix lineatim confertim sat grosse 

 (alibi quam pronotnm paullo magis subtiliter) rugulosis. 

 Long., 4 1. (vix); lat., 1 1. 



Very different from T. (Clerus) guttulus, White, in its colours 

 and markings ; also, inter alia, by the notably wider club of its 

 antennae. 



Victoria (Dividing Range). 



HYDNOCERA. 



This generic name must drop out of the Australian Catalogue, 

 H. bella, Westw., having been recently shown by Herr Schenk- 

 ling (Deutsch. Ent. Zeit, 1898, p. 180) to be a Lemidia. 



