BY A.RTHUR M. LEA. 295 



mixed with soot}' on the disk of prothorax; elytra with more 

 sooty than grey hairs, tlie grey most numerous at the base, 

 becoming sparsely sprinkled and disappearing before the apex is 

 reached. Undersurface with silvery-grey pubescence with a 

 yellowish tinge, densest on the legs; abdominal segments — except 

 at their bases — with sooty pubescence. 



Scutellum subquadrate, slighth^ depressed in the middle. 

 Aculeus narrowly margined, base rather broad, gradually decreas- 

 ing to the apex, which is truncate. Posterior spurs equal, about 

 two-fifths the length of the first tarsal joint. Length 6J, width 

 IJ mm 



Hah. — Sydney. 



Proportioned much the same or a little broader than 21. setipes, 

 and with a broader aculeus. I have a number of specimens 

 recently taken by Mr. Masters at Rope's Creek which agree in all 

 respects with the above description, except that the colour of the 

 base of the antenniie and anterior legs is very obscure. 



MORDELLA ALBO-SCUTELLATA, n.sp. 



Black; antennas piceous, basal joints piceous-red, mouth 

 ol^scurely red, anterior legs with femora and tibi?e piceous-red or 

 reddish-piceous, tarsi piceous, posterior spurs obscure red; head 

 (in some lights) with a steel-blue tinge. Head densely covered 

 with silvery-yellow pubescence (which when looked at from the 

 side appears to be parted in the middle, and one side darker than 

 the other), pubescence on prothorax somewhat darker (in some 

 specimens ver}^ obscure), at the base wath traces of three very 

 indistinct maculpe (these can sometimes be followed, when the 

 middle one appears almost parallel-sided, and continuous from 

 base to apex). Scutellum — and elytra narrowly at the base — 

 pubescent as the head, shoulders as the prothorax, the rest of the 

 elytra appearing sooty, but when a light is thrown on it somewhat 

 purplish. Undersurface pubescent as head; sides of metasternum, 

 aculeus and abdominal segments (including a small jDart of the 

 basal) with purplish pubescence, sides of the basal segment lighter 

 than in the middle. 



