BY A. SIDNEY OLLIFF, F.E.S. 707 



each side of the smooth median line is strongly and closely 

 punctured whilst in others the disc is shining and the punctures 

 much less dense. A small specimen from Gayndah in the collec- 

 tion of the Australian Museum appears to bear the same relation 

 to this species as Leperina hurnettensis does to L. cirrosa. It has 

 the scales on the prothorax and the elytral fascicles less con- 

 spicuous than those of the typical form. As it is not in a very 

 good stace of preservation I prefer to regard it as a variety at all 

 events for the present. 



15. Leperina fraterna, sp. n. (A. M.) 



Oblong, piceous, thickly covered with black scales, intermingled 

 with white and pale reddish-brown ones ; prothorax a little more 

 than one and a-half times as broad as long, the sides strongly 

 rounded ; elytra finely costate, with three fascicles on each side 

 composed of black spatuliform scales, the first near the humeral 

 angle, the other two situated in the first interstice — one about the 

 middle and the other just before the apex. 



Head rather strongly and closely punctured, with a small black 

 fascicle on the inner margin of each of the eyes. Antennae dark 

 ferruginous. Prothorax irregularly and rather closely punctured, 

 with a smooth and slightly elevated median line, two indistinct 

 fascicles on each side considerably before the middle ; anterior 

 angles rounded. Scutellum rounded behind. Elytra narrower in 

 front than behind, finely costate, the interstices rather broad, 

 moderately strongly and very irregularly punctured, with several 

 small fascicles situated in the first, second and third interstices. 

 Underside ferruginous; presternum impunctatein the middle, finely 

 rugose at the sides ; mesosternum metasternum and abdominal 

 segments strongly, closely and very irregularly punctured. Legs 

 dark ferruginous. Length 9-12 mm. ; greatest width 3f-5 mm. 



Salt River, "West Austi'alia. 



Very near Leperina lacera, but separated by its narrower and 

 more elongate form, strongly rounded prothorax and in having the 

 fascicles on the elytra less conspicuous ; the sides of the prothorax 



