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NEOCLES. 



if. innocuus, sp. nov. Minus elongatus ; piceus plus miuusve 

 metallico-micans, capite antennis palpis femoribus tibiis 

 tarsisque rufis ; pube aureo-brunnea (hac nonnihil macu- 

 latim disposita) vestitus ; capite sat prof unde ruguloso : 

 prothorace quam longiori vix latiori, antrorsum leviter 

 angustato (nihilominus, superne viso, fortiter angustatus 

 apparet), antice valde producto, fortiter granulo so-ruguloso, 

 longitudinaliter leviter late sulcato, lateribus minus arcuatis, 

 angulis anticis sat rectis posticis obtusis ; elytris subseriatim 

 confertim punctulatis et granulatis, nullo modo costatis. 

 Long., aj L; lat., If 1. 



This genus is remarkable among the Eumolpides by the 

 presence of prosternal channels for the reception of the antennae, 

 and by a facies very unlike that of a typical Eumolpid. Only 

 one species has been described hitherto — N. sulcicollis, Chp., of 

 which I possess the type. Owing to the front margin of the 

 pronotum being very strongly produced forward in the middle 

 the prothorax appears (when viewed from above) to be very 

 much more narrowed in front than it really is, and owing to the 

 extero-anterior angles of the prosternum being strongly pro- 

 duced the pronotum (viewed in a somewhat oblique direction 

 which discloses the prosternal angles) appears to have spiniform 

 front angles. The present species differs from N. sulcicollis by, 

 inter alia, its non-costate elytra, and the sides of its prothorax 

 (though slightly serrate, yet) without a denned median angular 

 projection. 



N.S. Wales : Tweed R. district. 



CASSIDIDiE. 



CASSIDA. 



C. profunde-striata, Spaeth. The description of this insect 

 (Verh. Ges. Wien., 1899, p. 216) reads as if it might well be 

 founded on a specimen of G. mera, Germ., which varies from the 

 type in having its elytra more or less spotted with black. I 

 have taken in company specimens with and without dark spots. 

 Herr Spaeth does not mention C. mera, to which his insect is at 

 any rate extremely close. 



