Head ashy, antennae brown.  Thorax brownish black, punctured and hirsute, a thick blunt spine from the middle on each side.  Elytra at the base in the middle with a blunt slightly hooked spine, they have two prominent keels, the external the longest, the surface is deeply punctured, in some parts almost pitted, grey, a black line on sides and extending over the back, so as to form an oblong black spot from the middle to near the base, a dagger-shaped spot on the suture behind, and a few black spots on the elevated line.  Abdomen beneath greyish.  Legs grey, with short blackish bristles, tarsi narrow not dilated.

Length about 7 lines.

Habitat:  New Holland.

This curiously marked longicorn comes near Ceraegidion boisduval.

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Paropsis scutifera.

INSECTS.  PLATE 2, FIGURE 8.

Yellow; head vermilion, with two long black spots between and behind the eyes.  Elytra yellow with a large squarish spot common to both, outwardly bounded by a dark line, except in front where the yellow of the general surface runs into the square.  The ground of the spot is red, with a yellow line near the suture on each side; elytra at the base narrowly edged with black.  Antennae, legs, and underside yellow.

Length 2 1/4 lines.

Habitat:  New Holland.

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Chrysomela (Australica ?) strigipennis.

INSECTS.  PLATE 2, FIGURE 4.

Brown with a greenish metallic hue.  Thorax and elytra margined with obscure yellow, thorax with the anterior angles yellow, a few irregular punctures in the middle, and the posterior parts thickly dotted with impressed points; elytra with seven irregular lines of impressed dots, towards the tip they are irregularly dispersed, there are a few irregular yellow streaks near the margins of the elytra; under side blackish brown, tibiae and tarsi yellowish.

Length about 4 1/4 lines.

Habitat:  New Holland.

This differs from Australica in having the thorax narrower, and the antennae longer and less thickened at the end.

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APPENDIX.

DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW OR IMPERFECTLY CHARACTERIZED LEPIDOPTERA FROM AUSTRALIA.

BY EDWARD DOUBLEDAY, F.L.S.  ASSISTANT IN THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

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Genus EUSCHEMON, Doubleday.

Maxillae moderately long.

Labial Palpi of moderate length, basal joint very short, compressed, curved, clothed with scales and long hairs, second joint about four times as long as the first, subcylindric, clothed with long scales, third joint clothed with small scales, short, elongate-oval, slenderer than the second, the scales of which almost conceal it.

Antennae elongate, with a fusiform club much hooked at the extremity.

Eyes large, forehead broad.