64 H. I. Carter: 



rounded; finely striate, any puncturation obscured by the close 

 recumbent clothing; sternum closely and finely punctured, abdomen; 

 with a short, sparse and line reddish pubescence. 



Dimensions. — 9 x 3 mm. . 



Habitat. — Endeavour River (South Aus. Mus.), Coen River (\Y. 

 Dodd). 



Far. J. ---With elytra black, shoulders and sides near base nar- 

 rowly red, sometimes also with a red spot on each elytron near 

 middle, and the middle femora with a variable amount of red. 



Var B. — Elytra red, apex black, without the black circular spot 

 near base. 



Eight specimens examined, two of which are coloured as in 

 Var. A. one as Var. B. It is easily distinguished from all de- 

 scribed species by its depressed and more ovate form, trapezoidal 

 prothorax and coloration. 



Types in the South Australian Museum. 



Ghromomoea fusca, n. sp. 



Narrowly elongate ovate, navicular; upper surface opaque 

 fuscous, sometimes reddish brown, covered with fine adpressed 

 reddish hair, underside and legs black (or nearly so), tibiae under-- 

 side of the femora, ami parts of abdomen, sometimes reddish, tarsi, 

 palpi and basal joints of antennae red. 



Head as wide as prothorax, eyes prominent, oral parts less 

 produced than usual, apical joint of maxillary palpi shortly securi- 

 form ; antennae short, joint 3 cylindric. slightly longer than 4. 

 4-10 triangular, nearly equal, 11th oval as long as 10. Prothorar 

 subcylindric, longer than wide, slightly rounded in front, sharplj 

 rectangular at base, truncate, and of equal width at apex and base ; 

 like the head, thickly clothed with hue adpr.essed hair, longitudinally 

 arranged, sometimes with a faint indication of a medial line at 

 base. Scutellum oval, larger than usual. 



Elytra convex, narrowly ovate, wider than prothorax at base, 

 shoulders rounded, sides tapering to a pointed apex; finely seriate 

 punctate, the seriate punctures visible, though more or less obscured 

 by hirsute clothing; underside, especially sternum, closely punctate 

 ami clothed with whitish pubescence, legs without sexual distinction, 

 the ses easily seen by the usual structure of the last segment of 

 abdomen, excavate with a small quasi-sixth eejrmpnt in the <S. 

 The 2 usually larger and wider. 



Dimensions. 5-6 x L.5-1.8 mm. 



