DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 57 



Notoxus rcticornis Westw. 



Elongated, rather narrow. Head and thorax black, with scattered 

 punctures. Antenna?, labrum, and palpi rufo-fulvous. Elytra 

 with the basal half of a bright fulvo-testaceous ; the apical half 

 pitch-coloured, with a transverse whitish band behind the middle 

 and interrupted in the middle. Elytra punctate- striate, the 

 tips smooth. Legs black. 



Length 4 lines. 



Notoxus m^rens Westw. 



Head black, very slightly punctured. Antennae black, pitchy 

 brown at the base. Palpi moderate. Prothorax black, of the 

 width of the head ; behind slightly narrower ; the disk in the 

 middle slightly impressed, irregularly punctured. Elytra black, 

 punctato -striate ; tips smooth; in the middle a transverse 

 whitish band. Body beneath black. Coxae of a pitchy chestnut ; 

 legs black ; tibiae and tarsi pitchy brown. 



Length 2^ lines. 



Hab. Australia (Adelaide). 



NoTOXUS EPHIPPIGER, n. S. 



Of a dingy brownish black ; a squarish ochrey yellow spot on the 

 suture, behind which and running into it is a narrow yellow 

 transverse band ; from this band, and including it, the surface of 

 the elytra is covered with large punctures arranged in longitu- 

 dinal lines ; end of elytra yellowish, and covered with silky 

 greyish hairs ; a tuft of black hairs on the back of each elytron 

 at the base. Antennae yellow. Legs brownish black ; tips of 

 tibiae and the tarsi yellow. 



Length 4| lines. 



Hab. New Holland. 



NoTOXTJS SEX-NOTATUS Westw. 



Elongated, narrow. Legs very long. Head cyaneous, subrugose, 

 with minute punctures ; as wide as the prothorax. Antennae 

 elongated, and with the palpi fulvous. Prothorax cyaneous, 

 shining, slightly rugose ; before the middle with an angled im- 

 pression, and an abbreviated middle dorsal line behind, con- 

 siderably contracted. Elytra cyaneous at the tip, inclined to 

 purple ; the basal half striato-punctate ; two oval spots before 

 the middle, an interrupted median band, and two somewhat 

 oblique apical spots, yellowish. Body beneath cyaneous. Legs 



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