214 INSECTS OF THE CAIRNS DISTRICT, NORTHERN QUEENSLAND, 



covered with minute variolose punctures (each puncture showing 

 a green centre), and have a long lunulate spot (the concavity 

 inwards) on the humeral angle, a narrow lateral strip, and the 

 margins of the broadly rounded apex, all yellow, there is also a 

 round yellow spot on the disk about one-fourth of the length from 

 the apex, and nearer to the side than to the suture, and a larger 

 round spot of the same colour about the centre of the disk, placed 

 in the middle of an obscure blackish longitudinal patch. In one 

 of my specimens there is above this last spot, a rather indistinct 

 golden one. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Hab. — Mossman River. 



2. Dystipsidera flavipes. 



Black, with coppery or brassy reflections. Head large, trans- 

 versely acuducted behind and in front, longitudinally between the 

 eyes, a transverse semilunar depression between the eyes, the first 

 joint of the antennae, a spot below the insertion of the antennae, the 

 outer side of the base of the mandibles, the middle of the labrum, 

 and the palpi with the exception of the apical joint, yellow. 

 Thorax about as wide as long, very deeply transversely divided 

 near the apex, less deeply so near the base, the middle portion 

 very transverse, and rounded on the sides ; the whole ti'ansversely 

 striolate. Elytra broader than the thorax and more than twice 

 the length, punctate and transversely striolate and rugose, with 

 the base, a median somewhat wavy fascia not reaching the suture, 

 and the apex, yellow ; the suture terminates in a minute spine. 

 The legs, with the exception of a portion of the outer sides of the 

 thighs, yellow or reddish yellow. 



Length, 8 lines. 



Hab. — Cairns. 



This species resembles D. ^mdulata, Westw., a species found in 

 Northern New South Wales and Southern Queensland. Z>. 

 undulata is, however, much coarser in the puncturation and 

 sculpture generally. The legs are nearly black and more clothed 

 with white setae, and the yellow markings on the elytra are quite 

 diflfercnt. 



