502 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



With the exception of vagans, this is the smallest species I am 

 acquainted with in the genus. The elytra have a brownish patch 

 extending almost across the entire base, its sides directed obliquely 

 to suture near apex (but feebly incurved), so that in shape it is 

 much like an isosceles triangle; the sides are paler than the head 

 and prothorax. Under a Coddington lens I have not been able 

 to see any punctures, nor hav^e I been able to so fix the legs as 

 to expose the abdominal lamellae. 



SCYMNUS COMPOSITUS, n.sp. 



Elliptic-oblong, moderately convex, shining. Reddish- testaceous; 

 sterna and abdomen (apex excepted or not) darker; elytra paler 

 but marked with fuscous at base (except near extreme shoulders), 

 rather widely along suture, at apex, and rather indistinctly at 

 sides. Rather densely clothed with short ashen pubescence, as 

 long on under as on upper surface. 



Head and prothorax minutely, elytra comparatively strongly, 

 punctate. Intercoxal process of prosternum comparatively nar- 

 row and strongly carinate. Abdomen moderately densely punc- 

 tate ; 1st suture traceable across middle ; lamellae not quite 

 extending to suture, and rather more coarsely punctate than 

 elsewhere. Femora stouter than usual. Length l|-mm. 



/^«6.— Tamworth, N.S.W. 



In colour and shape closer to the preceding than any other 

 species with which I am acquainted; but apart from the great 

 difference in size,, it differs in having the sutural marking much 

 less triangular and dilated at the apex, and with the sides 

 infuscate, so that each elytron appears to be supplied with a 

 somewhat elliptic testaceous blotch. 



SCYMNUS MIMICUS, n.Sp. 



Elliptic-ovate, moderately convex, moderately shiny. Prothorax 

 (sides and anterior edge excepted), scutellum, sterna and abdomen 

 (apical segments more or less diluted) piceous or piceous-brown; 

 head and epipleurse brown; femora testaceous-brown, tibiae and 

 tarsi pale testaceous; elytra obscure brownish-testaceous, with 



