BY A. SIDNEY OLLIFF, F.B.S. 703 



a moderately deep longitudinal impression on each side of the 

 median line ; elytra costate, the intei'stices broad, very strongly 

 and closely punctured, and furnished with four or more rather large 

 patches of rusty red scales. 



Head i*ather broad, irregularly strigose-punctate and somewhat 

 depressed in the middle. Antennae pitchy red, the basal joint 

 considerably enlarged and rather strongly punctured, Prothorax 

 rather strongly emarginate in front, the sides strongly rounded 

 and narrowly reflexed, the posterior angles obtuse, a small patch of 

 rusty red scales at the anterior angle, another at the middle, and a 

 third much larger patch at the posterior angle. Scutellum broad, 

 rounded behind, closely and strongly punctured. Elytra about 

 twice as long as the head and prothorax together, the sides almost 

 parallel for two-thirds of their length, then gradually rounded to 

 the apex : each elytron with three distinct costse, the first two 

 extending to the apical margin, the third effaced posteriorly ; there 

 is a slight indication of a fourth costa at the humeral angle, the 

 interstices are strongly, irregularly, and very closely punctured ; 

 the lateral margin and each of the interstices is furnished with a 

 row of rather large patches of scales, these patches vaiy from four 

 to six in number and are easily abraded. Underside coloured as 

 above; presternum strongly and not very closely punctured ; 

 meso and metasternum equally strongly and much more closely 

 punctured ; abdominal segments finely and very closely punctured. 

 Legs pitchy, closely punctured. Length, 7|-11 mm; greatest 

 width 3-4 mm. 



King George's Sound, West Australia. 



Easily distinguished from all the other species of the genus by 

 the patches of scales on its elytra ; by its strongly rounded pro- 

 thorax ; and by its closely punctured surface. It belongs to the 

 section of the genus in which the elytral fascicles are absent. 



7. Leperina adusta. (A. M.) 



Leperina adusta, Pascoe, Journal of Entom. I., p. 100 (1860). 

 Bombala, Gunniag, Mouaro, New South Wales ; Melbourne, 

 Victoria ; South Australia. 



