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Elytra longer than wide, wider than prothorax, widest behind the 

 ))ase, apex conjointly rounded. Femora thick. Length 1 1, 

 width J mm. 



Ihoh. — Richmond River. 



Clypeaster pulchella, n.sp. 



Rather elongate. Prothorax bright red, with a piceous mark 

 at its apex; elytra black, a broad bright red fascia across the 

 middle, which is seemingl}^ composed of two large semilunar spots 

 having their convex sides towards the base, metasternum — except 

 middle of apex — and sides of basal abdominal segment piceous- 

 black, other segments piceous at sides, but decreasing to apex; 

 head and antennae brown. Elytra with rather short and sparse 

 pubescence, still sparser and shorter on prothorax, undersurface 

 with longer and sj)arser pubescence than above. Prothorax 

 extremely minutely, elytra and metasternum very minutely 

 punctate. 



Prothorax shallowly bisinuate, angles scarcely produced. Scutel- 

 lum transverse, semicircular ly rounded. Elytra considerably 

 longer than wide, widest behind the base and wider than pro- 

 thorax, not much narrower near apex than at base, each separately 

 rounded. Femora not very thick, distance between posterior 

 gi-eater than their length. Length IJ, width 4 (vix) mm. 



//ai.— Sydney, Forest Reefs. 



Easily recognisable by the red fascia on the elytra; G.fasciatiis 

 (from Tasmania) is described as having deep punctures on the 

 elytra, and the legs differently coloured — ^characters not possessed 

 by the present species. 



Clypeaster Axdersoxi, n.sp. 



Moderately elongate. Dark redf prothorax with an indistinct 

 piceous mark at apex, base feebly tinged with piceous; elytra 

 with a brownish blotch about scutellum; a piceous tinge at the 

 junction of the meso- and metasternum and about all the coxse; 

 antenn?e brown. Above equally clothed with not very long 

 pubescence, the pubescence on he undersurface sparser and 



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