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Elasmo stoma insulana, sp . n . 
(PI. X., Fig. 7.) 
Elongate-ovate, dark fuscous, densely clothed with very 
hue decumbent griseous brown pubescence, and sparingly 
covered with long erect hairs of the same colour. Head 
with a distinct median line, slightly depressed behind the eyes ; 
face with a few rather strong punctures. Antennae rather 
longer than the entire body, densely pubescent ; the basal 
joint robust, the 2nd very short, the 4th rather longer than 
the 3rd, the rest gradually shorter. Pro thorax transverse, 
very sparingly and rather strongly punctured in front, almost 
impunctate behind, with two very strong obtuse posteriorly 
curved tubercle-like spines in front on each side ; beneath the 
second or hindermost of these spines the lateral spine is 
situated ; the anterior margin slightly impressed, the posterior 
somewhat raised. Elytra rather more than twice as long as 
the head and prothorax together, narrowed behind, strongly, 
irregularly, and very sparingly punctured ; the humeral angles 
minutely tubereulate ; the sides arcuately .rounded at the apex ; 
each elytron with a longitudinal row of live tubercles at the 
base, midway between the suture and the lateral margin. 
Underside densely pubescent. Legs densely pubescent, and 
sparingly setose, except on the external margins of the apical 
half of the tibiae, where the setae are decumbent and dense, 
Length 20 mm. 
Lord Howe Island. 
Cebesium pbocerum, sp . n , 
(PI. x., Fig. 3.) 
Elongate, moderately convex, finely clothed with grey 
pubescence ; head, prothorax and underside piceous; antennae, 
elytra, and legs dark reddish testaceous. Head rather strongly 
and irregularly punctured, the punctuation effaced in the 
middle at the base. Antennae considerably longer than the 
body, clothed with very tine reddish testaceous pubescence, 
the 1st joint somewhat enlarged. Prothorax nearly as long 
as broad, narrowed both in front and behind, finel} r , irregularly, 
and sparingly punctured at the sides, more finely and very 
sparingly punctured in the middle, with an obscure transverse 
impression near the anterior margin. Scutellum closely 
pubescent. Elytra parallel-sided, rather closely punctuate, the 
punctuation arranged in irregular rows, coarse for the basal 
two-thirds, and gradually decreasing in strength posteriorly, 
with indistinct indications of three costse. Underside with 
