504 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



densely punctate; 1st suture traceable (in certain lights) across 

 middle; lamellae rather large, but touching suture for but a very 

 short distance. Length If mm. 



jjab. ^Fore^t Reefs, N.S.W. 



The testaceous vittse of the elytra touch the extreme margins 

 in the humeral regions only. 



SCYMNUS PECTORALIS, n.Sp. 



Oblong-ovate, moderately strongly convex, shining. Pale 

 brownish-testaceous; head, sides and anterior margins of prothorax 

 slightly paler; scutellum piceous; each elytron with about five 

 small pale testaceous blotches (moderately well defined to the 

 naked eye, but indistinct under a lens); suture near base with a 

 brownish blotch, from each of the anterior angles of which an 

 indistinct oblique stripe connects it with an angular and well 

 defined spot; raeso- and metasternum shining black, all the rest 

 of the under surface (except basal segment of abdomen and 

 epipleurne, which are slightly infuscate) and the appendages 

 testaceous. Clothed with short ashen pubescence similar on both 

 under and upper surfaces. 



Upper surface finely (scarcely visibly) punctate. Elytral 

 suture finely carinate. Intercoxal process of prosternum flattened, 

 its sides finely carinate. Abdomen densely and comparatively 

 strongly punctate; 1st suture traceable across middle (from some 

 directions rather distinctly so) ; lamellae large and wide, but 

 nowhere (behind the coxae almost) touching suture. Length 

 2 mm. 



Hah.— Armids^le, N.S.W. 



The spots or blotches are much more distinct in the vicinity of 

 the scutellum than elsewhere, the elytra there having the appear- 

 ance of tortoise-shell. The metasternum is almost as visibly 

 punctate in the middle, and almost as densely clothed as at the 

 sides. The markings are very different from those of any species 

 with which I am acquainted; the shape is much the same as that 

 of ohumhratus. 



