348 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



MiSOPHRICE VARIABILIS, Sp.nOV. 



Oblonga ; supra ferruginea ; antennis (articulis basalibus 

 2 exceptis), capite (rostro excepto), rostro apice ipso, ely- 

 trorum sutura et maculis vittiformibus nonnuUis, piceis vel 

 nigris ; subtus picea, abdomine ferrugineo, pedibus ferrugineis 

 (tarsis piceis exceptis) ; squainis albidis minus crebre vestita, 

 his in elytris maculatim condensatis ; rostro arcuato, minus 

 valido, prothorace paullo longiori, supra longitudinaliter 

 subtiliter 5-carinato, carinis apicem versus evanescentibus ; 

 antennis sat nitidis, rostri vix ante medium insertis, funiculi 

 articulo 1° 2° et 2° 3° dimidia parte longioribus, articulis 3-6 

 obconicis inter se sat arete conjunctis ; prothorace leviter 

 transverso, a basi ad apicem (vix arcuatim) angustato, sat 

 fortiter punctulato, puncturis sub squamas abditis, basi 

 bisinuato ; elytris puncturis subquadratis sat magnis (in 

 striis leviter impressis positis) instructis et setulis brevibus 

 erectis vestitis ; prosterno antice parum emarginato. 



[Long, l|-2, lat. |-| line (vix). 

 "Var. Colore obscuro in elytris deticiente vel magis extenso. 

 The whitish scales on the elytra are placed on the interstices of 

 the striae ; in the anterior quarter they cover nearly the whole of 

 the interstices, thence hindward assuming the form of subquadrate 

 spots placed for the most part on the alternate interstices. In the 

 type the blackish colouring occupies the suture widely, and forms 

 a still wider vitta on the hinder part of the disc of each elytron ; 

 in one example before me this colouring is absent except on the 

 suture where it is very faint, in another it is so extended that the 

 elytron might almost be described as black with a line near the 

 suture and the lateral margin ferruginous. The whitish patches 

 of scales do not seem to vary. The basal two ventral segments 

 are deeply impressed in the middle. 



S. Australia ; Port Lincoln ; also at Petersburg. 



MiSOPHRICE ARGENTATA, Sp.nOV. 



Oblongo-ovata ; nigra ; supra disperse subtus confertim 

 argenteo-squamosa, squamis setuliformibus in elytris vittatim 



