318 INSECTS OF THE CAIRNS DISTRICT, NORTHERN QUEENSLAND, 



■with smaller spots behind, the base more deeply white at the 

 emarginations. Elytra each with a white spot at the scutellum, 

 another behind nearer the side, a third at the middle near the 

 suture, a fourth between that and the apex and further from the 

 suture ; pygidium very acute and long. Flank of thorax and 

 abdomen white-spotted. 



Length, 4 lines. 



Hah. — Barron River. 



71. MORDELLA OVALISTICTA. 



Black, opaque, sericeous. Head bordered behind except in the 

 middle with whitish pubescence, thorax with a rather faint trans- 

 verse band of white nearer the apex than the base, two short 

 longitudinal lines behind it, and a broader band along the basal 

 border. Elytra each with an oval oblique spot near the base, a 

 shorter oval spot near the suture about the middle, and a smaller 

 one behind further from the suture. The pygidium strongly and 

 bluntly pointed, the flanks white spotted. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Hab. — Mossman River. 



72. MORDELLA UNDOSA. 



This species is of a rather short oval form, the thorax less 

 transverse than usual and the pygidium strongly but not largely 

 pointed. The thorax has four narrow lines of white pubescence, 

 two of them lateral. The elytra have three very thin wavy fasciae 

 of the same kind, one at the base not reaching the sides, one about 

 the middle complete from side to side, the third near the apex 

 incomplete. All the rest jet black. 



Length, 1 line. 



Hah. — Mossman River. 



73. MORDELLA HAMATILIS. 



Also a short oval form, black, subnitid. Base of thorax mar- 

 gined with whitish pubescence. On each elytron an elongate 



