532 NEW SPECIES OP AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



slightly darker or concolorous with elytra, these testaceous-red 

 and each with a distinct transverse macula (varying from brown 

 to almost Ijlack) on each side and terminating considerably before 

 suture; abdomen piceous, three apical segments and apices of the 

 others reddish; legs reddish-testaceous, tarsi much paler; antennae 

 black or brown, three basal joints and palpi testaceous. Elytra 

 and abdomen with a few feeble yellowish scarcely distinguishable 

 hairs, the former with about tive longish black hairs at the sides 

 the latter with more numerous hairs, a hair on each side of base 

 of prothorax. 



Antennaj elongate, 10th joint feebly transverse, 11th about 

 once and one-half the length of 10th. Not visibly jDunctate 

 under a half inch power. Prothora< fully twice as wide as long, 

 apex widely and feebly emarginate, base truncate. Elytra longer 

 than wide, fully twice the length of prothorax, sides almost 

 straight; each elj'tron feebly separately rounded at apex. Four 

 basal segments of abdomen rather feelily margined. Length to 

 apex of elytra li, of abdomen 2^ mm, 



//«6.— Forest Reefs, N.S.W. 



I refer this species with doubt to Cilea on account of its 

 scarcely glabrous elytra and convex form. The species, however, 

 despite its variable colour, is one of the most distinct in the sub- 

 family. 



Cilea lampra, Oil. — I have specimens (from Sydney, Coota- 

 mundra and Tamworth) which were compared and agree with the 

 type of this species. It must at least be very close to discipennis, 

 Fauvel, and is probably either a variety or actually synonymous 

 with that species, as the only diflference from M. Fauvel's descrip- 

 tion that I can find is that the abdomen is without reddish 

 margins, and this is a character more or less subject to variation. 



CONOSOMA PRIMUM, n.sp. 



Shining; reddish-testaceous; base of head, base and apex of 

 prothorax and elytra slightly infuscate; 1st and 4th abdominal 

 segments tinijed with black; under surface rather darker than 



