84 H. I. Carter i 



If. limbata, Blackb., has a wide distribution throughout New- 

 South Wales and Victoria. I have taken it on flowers at Gosford, 

 Medlow, Jindabyne, Mount Macedon. There is a variety in which 

 the black lateral vitta is wanting. 



Homotrysis ornata, n. sp. 



Ovate, nitid black, elytra adorned with white pubescent longitu- 

 dinal patches placed on the 1st, 3rd and 5th intervals; head, under- 

 side and legs clothed with recumbent white, silky hair, tarsal claws 

 red. Head punctate and pubescent, eyes large and separated by a 

 distance less than the diameter of one, antennae joint 3 of equal 

 length to 4, and slightly longer than the succeeding, 5-11 subequal. 

 Prothorax about as long as wide, wider at base than at apex, basal 

 half parallel, arcuately narrowed apically, the apex bisinuato, 

 anterior angles rounded, depressed and feebly advanced, posterior 

 angles obtuse, base truncate, disc with sparse shallow punctures, 

 medial line clearly impressed on anterior half, a medial basal fovea 

 and transverse basal depressions on each side. Scutellum rounded 

 behind, pubescent. Elytra oval, wider than prothorax at base, 

 shoulders well marked, raised and rounded, apex rather finely 

 pointed ; striate punctate, with a short scutellary row, and nine 

 other rows of rather large round regularly placed and equal sized 

 punctures placed in shallow striae (these striae only well marked 

 on apical half), intervals nitid and impunctate, except where 

 pubescent; the white pubescence forming short longtitudinal patches- 

 covering parts of the 1st, 3rd and 5th intervals behind the middle 

 (when abraded these patches marked by close, fine punctures), with 

 some irregular pubescence on apical declivity. Sternum and 

 abdomen with rather close white pubescence, the anal segment of 

 c? showing the usual falcate protuberance (meeting behind), tarsi 

 with the usual lamellation (two on the four anterior feet, one on the 

 posterior). Legs simple, tibiae straight. 



Dimensions. — 9-11 x 3.2-4 mm. 



Habitat. — Cooktown, North Queensland (H. Hacker and R. J. 

 Tillyard). A very common North Queensland species, of which seven 

 specimens are under examination, of which six are certainly $ . 

 At first it seemed that it might be the $ of //. maculata, Haag., 

 lint I find both sexes of the latter, which may lie distinguished by 

 the following characters: — Sizx? larger, colour reddish-brown, pube- 

 scence irregular and extending over the whole surface of elytra- (if 

 abraded their position indicated by punctures), prothorax coarsely 



