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DlSTICHOCERA THOMSON ELLA, D. S. (PI. LV1II. fig. 6.) 



D. thomsonella, White, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 



D. velutino- nigra ; capite, thorace elytrisque maculis alboseri- 

 ceis notatis ; pedibus nigris ; femoribus, apice atro excepto, 

 rubris (<$). 



Long. lin. 6^. 



Hab. Australia. 



Named in compliment to the well-known author and publisher of 

 the ' Archives Entomologiques ' and other finely illustrated ento- 

 mological works. 



Rhytiphora. 

 Rhytiphora amicula. (PI. LIX. fig. 7.) 



R. pilis cinereis delicatule obsita, plagulis rufulo-flavis varie- 

 gata ; elytrorum apice subtruncato, ad basin verrucis nigris 

 paucis exstantibus, dorso carinulis duabus (saltern) haud pro- 

 minen tibus longitudina libus. 



Hab. In Australia septentrionali (Bom. Elsey). 



The late Mr. Elsey found this species at the Victoria River depot, 

 on Mr. Gregory's expedition ; it is of a most delicate ash-colour, and 

 slightly ornamented with dots of reddish-yellow hairs. 



A species closely allied to Rhytiphora polymita of Mr. Pascoe. 

 The antenna-joints, after the second, are fringed with hair ; the head 

 and thorax are thickly punctured under the hairs, and varied with 

 rufous-yellow dots ; the antennae are cinereous, the fringe blackish, 

 evanescent on the last joint. 



Sympheletes. 



Sympheletes (Platymopsis) armatulus. (PL LIX. fig. 8.) 



S. argenteo-cinereus, plagulis indistinctis rufescenti-Jlavulis, ma- 

 cula subobliqua subquadrata nigro-fusca in later ibus ely- 

 trorum ante medium, parte basali elytrorum colore subobfuscato y 

 spinis curtis conicis paucis lineatim directis subarmata, spinis 

 paucis in medio ad suturam, et paucis semiobsoletis in par- 

 tibus alteris elytrorum ; elytris ad apicem externum spinigerum 

 ad suturam truncatis ; thorace spinis (tuber cutis potius) duabus 

 transverse in medio dorsi positis, tuberculo in lateribus sin- 

 gulis thoracis ad angulum anticum. 



Hab. In Australia septentrionali. 



Collected by the late lamented J. R. Elsey, Esq., Surgeon to Mr. 

 Gregory's Exploring Expedition. In this species the silvery grey 

 pubescence, blackened somewhat on the base and on the hinder 

 parts, and the squarish brownish-black spot on the sides before the 

 middle, with a very short white oblique band before it, directed back- 

 wards, and another light and longer band considerably behind it, 

 and directed forwards, and reaching almost to the suture, the conical 

 spines on the back of elytra at the base and along the suture, and 



