176 AUSTRALIAN PSELAPU1 U.K. 



Eu PINES POLITA, King. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S.W. i. 1863, p. 49. 



The description of the Rev. R. L. King makes the identification 

 of this species nearly a certainty. 



It resembles very much E. picta and aurora, but the body is of 

 a darker colour, with the legs pale testaceous; the antennae are 

 similar to those of E. picta, but a little longer and more slender, 

 and the club is not so strong. 



J". The anterior tibia? are thickened and obtusely toothed inside 

 at the middle, the anterior femora are thicker; the 2nd ventral 

 segment liears in the middle of the posterior margin a transverse 

 carinula bent forwards and shortly ciliate, the last segment has a 

 deep and slightly semicircular exavation. 



This species having the anterior tibiae similar to those of E. 

 aurora, differs from this last one by the colour, much darker 

 (piceous in polita, King, rufous in aurora, Schfs.), and the sexual 

 characters of the abdomen. 



Windsor, N.S.W. (Mr. A. M. Lea). 



EUPINES TUBEROSA, n.sp. 



Ovata, ferruginea, capite antennisque apice infuscatis, pedibus 

 antennisque basi testaceis, nitida, glabra, hevis, in elytris punctis 

 duobus vel tribus piliferis. Caput quadratum, angulis anticis 

 extends oblique truncatis, fronte utrinque oblique impresso, inter 

 oculos punctis duobus. Antenna? mediocres, articulis duobus 

 primis majoribus, ovalibus, 3-7 oblongis, 5 paulo longiori, 8 sub- 

 quadrato, 9 paulo majori, breviter ovato, 10 majori, trapezoidali, 

 11 ovato, tribus ultimis piceis. Prothorax cordatus. Elytra 

 ovata, humeris attenuatis sed leviter notatis. 



£. Metasternum late longitudinaliter impi'essum, utrinque 

 obsolete tuberculatum, segmentis ventralibus 2° prope marginem 

 posticam lamina magna, quadrata, antrorsum declinata pnedito, 

 ultimo piceo, deplanato et apice recte truncate 



<J. Metasternum totum sulcatum ; segmentis ventralibus 2° 

 basi rugoso-punctato, ultimo testaceo. Long. l^O-l^O mm. 



Tweed River, N.S.W. (Mr. A. M. Lea). 



