500 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Cryptol^mus Montrouzieri, Muls. Hah. — New South Wales; 

 widely distributed. 



SCYMNUS STRIATUS, 11. Sp 



Suboblong, strongly convex, shining. Testaceous; elytra with 

 fuscous markings; legs testaceous, under surface darker. 



Upper surface densely and finely punctate; elytra with an 

 appearance as of striation especially near the suture. Intercoxal 

 process of prosternum truncate, sides carinate. Sterna (except 

 middle of metasternum) and abdomen rather densely punctate; 

 1st suture just traceable across middle; lamellse extending to 

 suture. Length l|-2 mm. 



Hah. — North West Australia (Macleay Museum). 



At first sight not unlike some of the paler varieties of Sydney en- 

 sis, but narrower, more parallel-sided, and with different jDunctures 

 to that species. The markings are tortoise-shell-like, but are no- 

 where sharply defined. On one specimen there is a moderately 

 well defined dark spot on each side of elytra at base, a transverse 

 similarly coloured irregular fascia beyond middle (moderately 

 well defined on its posterior edge only, and not extending to sides), 

 and a feeble fascia near apex; between these two is a well defined 

 pallid zig-zag fascia. The other and larger specimen is paler, and 

 with the markings still more obscure. On both the suture and 

 base of elytra are dark brown. The elytra appear to be feebly 

 striate owing to rows of punctures (not distinctly traceable them- 

 selves) being infuscate; of these rows only one (on each side of 

 the suture) is at all sharply defined, the others being traceable 

 with more or less difficulty. 



SCYMNUS TRILOBUS, n,sp. 



Ovate, moderately convex, shining. Black; apical two-fifths 

 of elytra, abdomen, mouth-parts, antennae, tibiae and tarsi 

 reddish-testaceous; coxse, trochanter, base and apex of femora dark 

 red; epipleura piceous. Moderately densely clothed with whitish 

 pubescence. 



Densely, the elytra rather coarsely, punctate; punctures finer 

 at apex and along suture than elsewhere. Intercoxal process of 



