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colouring of the derm in the two insects is very similar, but the 
pubescence of the elytra differs considerably, a fresh specimen of 
i res 
very different antenne, there being much less difference in size 
between the fourth and fifth joints and the fifth and sixth joints 
being inter se equally dilated, while in guornensis the fifth joint 
is notably less dilated than the sixth. B. persimulans also has a 
good deal of colour resemblance to partially abraded examples of 
some varieties of B. lyndhurstensis, but is readily uris umi 
from it by its longer antennz, black prothorax, as well as by t 
presence of a tooth on the hind femora and the absence of aa 
characters on the basal ventral segment. This species does not 
fit into any of the groups in Mr. Lea’s poene not having its 
prothorax and elytra either both red or both bla. 
entral Australia ; Oodnadatta. 
PHYTOPHAGA. 
MEGASCELOIDES. 
M. circumcinctus, sp. nov. Fem. Minus elongatus ; pubescen 
piceus, antennarum basi capite prothorace antice iro 
(marginibus totis anguste piceis exceptis) pedibusque rufis ; 
capite brevi lato sat fortiter punctulato ; antennis filiformi- 
bus quam corporis dimidium su ublongi ioribus ; ; prothorace 
rectis, angulis anticis subdentiformibus ticis obtusis ; 
e s er minus subtiliter erg lin 
elevatis DB PR DRAN DUE circiter 3 instructis; femoribus 
leviter incrassatis n $21; lat, 121 (vix > 
The insect déooribed above has been in my collection for some 
considerable time comen ” doubtfully as belonging >= the 
Megascelides. Mr. French has recently sent me an insect closely 
allied to it which being a male I can identify wei with 
Mr. Jacoby’s genus Megasceloides (it is probably the typical 
species); and by y comparing my speci ies with it I have re 
myself that the former is a female of the same genus. 
from the male in what are likely to be sexual characters by the 
intermediate joints of its antenns scarcely dilated and its less 
Strongly dilated femora. Specifically it poc fron M. a 
numerous elevated lines on its elytra. 
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