COLEOPTERA, 
LAMIA VERMICULARIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae fetaceous, and elongated : head large, obtufe, declining : eyes reniform, embracing the bafe of 
the antennae: thorax cylindrical and uneven: wing-cafes as long as the abdomen : body cylindrical. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Thorax fomewhat tuberculated : black : wing-cafes fpeckled with numerous minute white vermicular 
charadters. 
Lamia Vermicularia : thorace fubtuberculato, nigro, elytris charaderibus vermicularibus minutis 
numerofis albis. 
Lamia Vermicularia is a native of New South Wales, as are likewife all the other infedts reprefented 
with it on the fame plate. The fpecimens of fome of thofe fpecies are in our own colledtion ; for the reft 
we are indebted to A. M'Leay, Efq. who pofleffes the whole of them. Neither of thofe infedts have 
hitherto been defcribed by any author. 
LAMIA OBLIQUA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Thorax dentated, cinereous, wing-cafes fpinous, emarginate at the tip, and marked obliquely behind with 
a whitilh band. 
Lamia Obliqua : thorace dentato, cinerea, elytris fpinofis, apice emarginatis : fafcia obliqua poftice albida. 
PRIONUS FASCIATUS. 
GENERIC CtlARACTER. 
Antennae fetaceous : eyes reniform, embracing the bafe of the antennae : thorax flat, marginate, the mar- 
gin oftentimes dentated : body oblong, and deprefled. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Thorax fomewhat marginated and unarmed: black, downy, wing-cafes chefnut, clouded with yellow, 
and rounded at the tip, with four elevated lines. 
Prionus Fasciatus : thorace fubmarginato inermi, niger, villofus elytris caftaneis flavo nebulofis apice 
rotundatis : lineis quatuor elevatis. 
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