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Anthribide much less allied to each other than they are.  Olliff's 
fectly- with Olliff’s somewhat full specific description that it 
seems impossible we can be mistaken in our identifieation of 
M. pestilens. I can find no generic distinction Ben M. pestilens 
and the insect mentioned above as D. palmari 
D. rns sp. Late ovalis; piceus, pube brunnea 
culatim ee ‘supra Min ldem subtilissime subaspere 
poxtlaton:; prothorace minus fortiter transverso, antror- 
sum a basi arcuatim fortiter angustato, squali; elytris 
ualibus, striatis, striis sat fortiter -— crebre punctulatis, 
interstitiis planis. Long., 34 L; lat., 
The head is entirely covered aon bright n dtm pubescence 
except & longitudinal vitta of dark brown pubescence on either 
side of the middle; the pronotum is confusedly variegated with 
bright brown pubescence on the piceous derm ; on the | elytra the 
piceous derm is variegated by bright brown pubescence arranged 
longitudinally on the interstices, the pubescence being continuous 
{on the specimen before me, which is evidently not at all abraded) 
on the front one fifth part of most of the inner seven interstices 
and nearly so on about the hinder half of the inner five inter- 
stices, but on the rest of the interstitial surface it takes the form 
of small square spots; where the pubescence is not of bright 
brown colour it is scarcely less dense, but is of the colour of 
ashy colour. This species seems to agree absolutely with 
D. palmaris, Pasc., and M. pestilens, Oll., in its structural charac- 
rs. ltis very distinet from bot , as a species, owing to the 
even surface of its pronotum and elytra. 
Queensland ; sent to me by Mr. G. Masters as No. 77. 
ARJEOCERUS. 
This genus is somewhat numerocsly represented in Australia, 
although no species of it have yet been recorded in Australia in 
such fashion as to be capable of confident identification. In 
is identical with ER Jfasciculatus, De Gor. Doubtless 
therefore A. sambucinus is an Areocerus and it now stands in 
our Catalogues as a variety of A. fasciculatus. I have not 
De Geer's description of A. fasciculatus, but I know 
the — as à Hawaiian Areocerus that the eminent Coleop- 
terist Dr. Sharp named for me. I have examples from 
tropical Queensland of an Ar@ocerus that 1 cannot separate 
