BY A. M. LEA. 505 



Hab. — S.A. : Mypoiiga, on Banksia marginata (H. H. D. 

 Griffith). 



In general appearance, fairly close to M. banksice, but elytra 

 with fairly dense, depressed clothing, instead of with series of 

 semi-upright setae. From M. ru/ula, it differs in being shorter, 

 prothorax more transverse and differently shaped, and femoral 

 teeth stronger; the elytral clothing is also less conspicuously 

 spotted, although more so than on M. carpophaga. In build, it 

 is very close to M. melanocephala, but the head and rostrum are 

 not black. From the description of M. tabida, it differs in 

 having the punctures on the rostrum moderately distinct, the pro- 

 thorax distinctly transverse, and the elytral punctures different. 

 On the elytra of that species, they are stated to "appear in 

 certain lights to be surrounded by a paler ring." On the four 

 typical specimens, I can see no such appearance, and the punc- 

 tures are more or less quadrate or oblong.* 



Myositta rufula, Pasc. 

 Three specimens before me appear to belong to this species. 

 One is from South Australia (Myponga, in Coll. Griffith), the 

 others are from Tasmania. In general appearance, they are 

 close to M. carpophaga^ but differ in being darker, and the 

 elytral clothing forming moderately distinct spots. 



Family CHRYSOMELID^. 



Calomela (Platymela) unilineata Baly. 

 Of this species, three specimens were known to Baly, one of 

 them being described as a variety. A specimen (from the Rich- 

 mond River) may represent another variety; it differs from the 

 description in having the head black, with two green spots at 

 the base; the prothorax has the pale median line of the type, but 

 parts of the base are also pale. It was mounted on a card with 

 two specimens of P. sticticollis, and I believe it to be a variety 

 of that species, with the three black spots on each side of the 

 prothorax extended to form an irregular blotch on each side. 



* The punctures in other genera, when apparently so surrounded, are 

 round. 



