INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 187 



Elasmus io, new species. 



Like flavinotus but mandibles 7-dentate, basal half hind 

 femur pale, abdomen above metallic, save distal margins seg- 

 ments 2-5, with cygnus. 



Elasmus virgo, new species. 



Like margiscutellum but scape, legs pale, a minute yellow 

 dot between yellow tegula and the axilla, mandibles 6-dentate, 

 club with a distinct spicule, abdomen with basal seventh, distal 

 third save narrow cross stripe near tip and three incomplete 

 cross-stripes between, 1 at apex of segment 2, others at same 

 of 3 and 4. 



Forest, Gordonvale, August 9, 1918. 



A NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDIOTA FROM NORTH- 

 ERN QUEENSLAND 



(Coleoptera, Scarabaeidce) 



By a. a. GIRAULT 



Lepidiota consobrina, new species. 



Female : Like frenchi with which compared but somewhat 

 larger ; dorsal prothorax and base of elytron very dark brown, 

 these shading into reddish, thus not uniform ; joints 6-7 of 

 male antenna shorter than same in female, also club larger in 

 proportion ; teeth on outer edge of front tibia obtuse and not 

 equidistant ; scaliness on venter of abdomen 2-5 much nar- 

 rower widely across meson, in the middle segments not nearly 

 covering the segment. 



In the larva, the path or naked area on the distal venter is 

 not ovate and closed but flask-shaped and open cephalad; also 

 the head is wider. The elytral scales of the two species dififer 

 in shape. 



Messrs. Edmund Jarvis and A. P. Dodd first pointed out the 

 above characteristics of this species (see Bureau Sugar Ex- 

 periment Stations of Queensland. Bulletins Nos. 5 and 6, 

 their No. 683). Type in Queensland Museum. 



