collected in Australia and Tasmania. 
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black, testaceous beneath in the male ; the body beneath black, 
the ventral segments 1-4 yellow in the female ; the legs black, 
the base of the four hinder tibiae sometimes obscure testa- 
ceous ; above and beneath, the prothorax excepted, clothed with 
fine cinereous pubescence. Head closely, finely punctate ; the 
eyes finely granulated, moderately large, transverse, reniform, 
feebly emarginate ; apical joint of the maxillary palpi long and 
cultriform in the male, shorter and stouter in the female ; mandi- 
bles bifid at the tip ; antennae filiform, extending nearly to the 
middle of the elytra, shorter in the female, joints 8-11 shorter 
than those preceding, 11 constricted at the middle. Prothorax 
cordate, transverse in the female, about as long as broad in the 
male, margined at the base and apex ; the disc deeply f oveate on 
either side before the middle ; the surface with a few widely 
scattered fine punctures, almost impunctate in one specimen. 
Elytra moderately long, nearly twice as wide as the prothorax, 
densely, finely punctate, and with two faint costae on the disc and 
one near the margin. Beneath thickly punctured. Claws simple. 
$ . Fifth ventral segment shallowly triangularly emarginate at 
the apex; the genital organs exposed, the outer lobes of which are 
long, curved, rather slender, and concave, and fringed with long 
hairs within. 
Length 6^-8^, breadth l|-2i mm. ( $ ). 
Hab. Tasmania — Hobart. 
Specimens of this species, and of A. sublineata, were 
sent to the British Museam by Mr. x4.tkinson in 1877. 
Both were obtained in some numbers by Mr. Walker, 
from flowers of Olearia, etc. 
Asclera suhlineata, n. sp. 
Sessinia sublineata, CO. Waterb., in litt. 
Moderately elongate, obscure green or bluish-green, slightly 
shining, the antennae, palpi, and legs black ; each elytron with one 
or two cinereo-pubescent vittae on the disc, the pubescence on the 
rest of the surface fuscous, that on the head, prothorax, and 
under surface cinereous. Head densely, moderately finely punc- 
tate ; the eyes rather small, transverse, reniform, finely granu- 
lated ; the apical joint of the maxillary palpi elongate- triangular ; 
the mandibles bifid at the tip ; the antennae filiform, about reach- 
ing the middle of the elytra, joints 6-11 subequal in length, shorter 
than those preceding, 11 not constricted at the middle. Pro- 
thorax as long as broad, subcordate, abruptly narrowed in front, 
densely, rather coarsely punctate, the disc very deeply, obliquely 
impressed on either side before the middle, the base and apex 
