BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 301 



segments and posterior tibise and tarsi tinged with brown; aculeus 

 piceous-brown. Covered all over (except on elytral markings) 

 Avith 3^ellowish silk}^ j^ubescence, which is longest above; posterior 

 tibise and tarsi edged with blackish sette. Prothorax with three 

 rather indistinct maculae, the median rather narrow and lanceolate 

 in shape, the outer ones small. 



Aculeus rather short and broad, strongly lessened about the 

 middle: apex narrow, feebly rounded. Posterior spurs unequal 

 in length, the longest fully half the length of the first tarsal joint. 

 Length 2|, width 1 mm, 



//a6.— Blackheath (Mr. G. Masters). 



MORDELLA V-FASCIATA, n.sp. 



Reddish-testaceous; prothorax with a faint piceous spot in the 

 middle; elytra black, the shoulders reddish-testaceous, an oblique 

 stripe extending from them to the suture at a little more than 

 half its length, becoming very indistinct as it approaches the 

 suture, the two forming an elongated Y. Metasternum stained 

 with piceous at the sides; abdominal segments black, narrowly 

 edged with obscure red; four posterior tibiae and tarsi tipped with 

 piceous; antennio piceous, the two basal joints testaceous. 

 Covered with greyish pubescence, silvery on elytral stripe and 

 basal segment of abdomen. 



Aculeus long, narrow (but wider than deep), apex sharply 

 pointed. Posterior spurs unequal, the longest about half the 

 length of the first tarsal joint. Length 2^, width 4 mm. 



Hab. — Galston (Lea); Blackheath (Mr. G. Masters). 



I have two specimens which in all structural details agree 

 exactly with the types of the above species; the markings are 

 somewhat different, but an examination of a number of specimens 

 would probably discover intermediates. For the present I think 

 them deserving of varietal rank. 



var. VEXUSTA. 



Black; muzzle, prothorax, an oblique humeral stripe (Inroad at 

 the base, narrowing and almost touching suture at its middle), 



