i:3'2 oarabidLe from tropical Australia. 



along each lateral margin, becoming wider and deeper on basal 

 third; border wide, retlexed: median line strongly impressed. 

 Elytra parallel (3'5 x 1-7 mm.). Abdomen with apex bisetigerous 

 on each side. Tarsi with upper side glabrous (not more than 

 one or two seise on upper side of each joint). Length, 5 '5: 

 bieadth, 1-7 mm. 



/lab. — Northern Territory: Port Darwin (Dodd). Unique, 

 in Coll. Sloane. 



A thoroughly distinct species, diti'ering tVom all others by its 

 small size, and the pattern of the elytra, which are piceous, with 

 an elongate, testaceous, dorsal area not reaching apex: the testa- 

 ceous, dorsal area extends across the three inner interstices at 

 the base, but spreads over the fourth as well, for most of its 

 length; the puncture of the third interstice is on the pale, dorsal 



area. 



G rou p Coptoder ides. 



DoLiCHOCHTis tetrastigma Ohaudoir. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., xii., 1869, p. 248. Mochtherus madeayi 

 SI., Proc. Linn. Soc. M. 8 Wales, 1907, xxxii., p.377. 



Mochfherun niaclemji 81., is a species of DoUchorJuis^ which I 

 identify with D. tetrastigma Chaud., from Celebes. 



Hab. — Celebes {fide Chaudoir; ; .New Guinea : Queensland, 

 Kuranda (Dodd), Normanby River (Sloane). 



Genus P l at i a. 

 Platia fkoggatti Macieay. 

 PhilophUhas froggatti Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 (2j, iii , 1888, p.455. 



I consider Pit. froggatti Macl., to be a species of Platia. Mr. 

 V . P. Dodd sent me specimens from Port Darwin. 

 Platia queenslandica, n.sp. 

 Oval, depressed. Piceous-black ; elytra variegated with 

 numerous yellowish stripes and longitudinal maculse : lateral 

 channel, border, extreme apex, and apical extremity of first 

 interstice yellowish; labruiji and legs brown. 



Head large, punctate, longitudinally rugulose near eyes. Pro- 

 thorax short, transverse, widest about anterior third (at position 



