cxxxii Mr. E. Newmans New Holland Insects. 



Hab. — South Australia. The only specimen I have seen is in the cabinet of Mr. 

 Westwood, to whom I am indebted for the opportunity of describing the species. 



Natural Order. — Clerites. 



Genus — Clerus? Auctorum. 



Clerus ? SOCIALIS. 



Punctissimus, subpilosus, niger, maculis 8 pilorum niveorum ornatis, scutello quoque* 

 niveo. (Corp. long. *4 unc. Elytrorum lat. max. "15 unc.) 



Black : prothorax remarkably convex, covered with large, deep, and confluent 

 punctures ; a little patch of snowy-white hairs on each side of its anterior margin, 

 almost close to the eye : scutellum covered with white down ; elytra at the base nearly 

 twice as broad as the prothorax, but gradually narrowing towards the apex ; the basal 

 portion, rather exceeding half, is covered with deep confluent punctures arranged in 

 series, and there is an elevated prominent ridge between the humeral and scutellar 

 angles ; the apical portion of the elytra has shallow and distant punctures, and is 

 highly polished ; this smoother portion is divided from the more rugose, by four little 

 subfascicular patches of snowy-white hair ; two of these are very near the suture, 

 and two below them nearer the costa ; in the anal angle of each elytra is a similar 

 but smaller patch : a remarkably obese insect, closely resembling, except in colour, 

 Clerus crassus of Newman. 



Hab. — Adelaide, South Australia : taken by Mr. Wilson, and now in Mr. S. 

 Stevens' collection. 



Class — Neueoptera. 



Natural Order — Perlites. 



Genus — Nemoura, Latreille. 



Nemoura speustica. 



Nigra ; alis anticis obscuris, maculis numerosis fuscis ornatis ; pedes nigri, femoribus 

 basijlavis, tibiis prope basin fiavo annulatis. {Corp. long. '4 unc. Alarum dilat. 

 1*4 unc.) 



Black: eyes very prominent, but still the breadth of the head is inferior to that of 

 the prothorax, black with a scarcely perceptible testaceous mark near its anterior mar- 

 gin : mesothorax black, with a triangular scutellum-like mark near its anterior 

 margin ; the rest of the body is black : the fore wings are uniformly stained with pale 

 brown, and adorned with a great number of distinet brown spots of various size and 

 figure : hind wings slightly spotted at the apex, tinged wiih yellow at the base : 

 femora yellow at the base ; tibiae annulated with yellow rather before the base. 



Hab. — Australia: taken by Mr. Mossman, and now in Mr. S. Stevens' collection. 



Edward Newman. 



