V. Characters of a few apparently undescribed Insects collected by James Gibbon, Esq., at Moreton Bay.

The serrated antennae are short, scarcely half as long at the prothorax and of an opaque dingy black, the basal joints slightly tinged with rust-colour, this being due to the pile, which appears originally to have clothed every part of the insect ; the head is semicircularly notched in front, its colour grey, sparingly interspersed with black and testaceous scale-like hairs ; the eyes are black, naked and brilliantly glabrous : the prothorax has on its anterior margin two small teeth, which project slightly over the head ; it is densely covered dorsally with greyish white pile, except along the mesial line, where it appears to have been denuded by friction, and where the exposed dermal envelope is intensely black and brilliantly glabrous ; the grey pile is interrupted on the lateral margins by five equidistant black spots, one occupying each angle and three intervening, the middle one is the largest and is somewhat quadrate ; the pile of the prothorax, like that of the head, is interrupted by specks of black and testaceous : the elytra are densely clothed with pile, each has nine striae and the interspaces are alternately slightly raised and slightly depressed ; the pile on