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flavo-testaceous, sides paler, shoulders and suture black or 

 infuscated; mesosternum, metasternum, and part of abdomen 

 black or blackish, rest of abdomen of a dingy red; legs reddish, 

 parts of tarsi infuscated. Under-surface and legs densely and 

 finely pubescent, upper-surface glabrous. 



Head with crowded and sharply-defined punctures, a 

 shallow depression near each eye. Antennae extending to 

 hind coxae, second joint shorter than third, their combined 

 length about equal to fourth. Prothorax more than thrice 

 as wide as the median length ; with crowded punctures, 

 slightly larger than on head, and much as on scutellum. 

 Elytra not much wider than prothorax, but about six times 

 its length ; with crowded punctures not quite as dense, but 

 larger than on prothorax. Under-surface with dense and 

 minute punctures. Tibiae finely spurred at apex. Length, 

 4'5-6 mm. 



Hab. — Tasmania: Mount Wellington, including the 

 summit (Aug. Simson and A. M. Lea), Cradle Mountain 

 (H. J. Carter and Lea), Devonport (Simson), Magnet (O. L. 

 Adams). Type, I. 10686. 



An elliptic species, readily distinguished from all others 

 of the genus by its consistently smaller size, more depressed 

 form, and much denser punctures, notably of the pronotum. 

 The colour of the majority of the specimens under examination 

 is as above noted, but the prothorax sometimes has two, four, 

 or more infuscated spots, the scutellum is usually black, the 

 dark spot on each shoulder may be sharply defined and small, 

 or less defined and continued as a vague stripe to well beyond 

 the middle, on such specimens the pale sides are very con- 

 spicuous, the sutural infuseation is usually very narrow. One 

 specimen, from Magnet, has the prothorax black, except for 

 the narrowly pale sides and apex, the dark humeral marking- 

 is continued almost to the apex, but beyond the middle breaks 

 up into a series of infuscate spots, and there are numerous 

 other feeble spots on the disk. Another specimen, from Mount 

 Wellington, has the prothorax red, with pale margins and a 

 few indeterminate dark spots about the base ; its elytra are 

 black, except for a narrow flavous stripe on each side, and a 

 small transverse flavous spot, between the scutellum and 

 each shoulder. 



SCLEROCYPHON MACULATUS, Blackb. 



The markings of this species (which occurs from the 

 Alpine district of Victoria to Cairns in North Queensland, 

 although apparently nowhere common) vary considerably, but 

 on the prothorax the sides are usually flavous, with the 

 median third blackish. 



