the Coleopterous Family Erotylidce. (35) 411 

 Episcaphula xanthosticta, sp. n. 



Depressa, nigi-a, nitida, subovata ; cajDite confertim punctato, 

 thorace transverso, basi bisiuuato, obsolete punctulato, punctis 

 majoribus raris impressis, fuh'^o, basi nigro ; elytris obsolete 

 seriatim piinctatis, interstitiis vix punctulatis, singulis maculis 

 2 laBte croceis, 1 majore basilar! ovata, 1 subapicali minore) ; an- 

 teiinis (clava nigra) pedibusqvie rnfis. L. 3| lin. 



Waigion (Wallace). 



Antennre slioi-t, eyes more finely granulated. 



Episcaphula australis. 



Episcapha Australis, Lac. Erot. 58. 12. 



Triplax vittata, Montrouz. Ann. Soc. Agr. Lyon. vii. 73 (1855). 



Episcapha austro-caledonica, Fauv. Bull. Norm. vii. 172, T. x. 

 f. 78. 



Deyrolii, Perr. Ann. Linn. Lyon. xi. 216. 



Ceram, Batcbian, Timor, Amboina, Makassar (Wallace), More- 

 ton Bay, Sydney, N. Caledonia. 



Tbis species is very variable but may be recognised by the 

 sculpture of the thorax ; the prosternum is emarginate behind. 



Episcaphula Reichei. 



Episcai^ha Reichei, Fauv. Bull. Norm. vn. T. x. f. 77. 



New Caledonia. 



This is closely allied to E. australis ; the underside is that of 

 E. inctipennis, as are also the elytra ; the thorax, however, is like 

 that of E. australis, but the sculpture is unlike either. 



Episcaphula pictipennis, sp. n. 



Elongata, nigi'a, nitida, capite crebre punctato, vertice sangui- 

 neo-maci;lato ; thorace transverso, basi fere margiiiato, evidenter 

 punctato, lateribus et basi punctis majoribus sparsim impressis; 

 sanguineo, maculis 2 magni.s discoidalibus nigris, basi attingentibus; 

 elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis punctidatis, fasciis 2 ochraceis 

 (1 basilar! acute dentata, 1 lunata infra medium) maculaque sub- 

 apicali sangiiiuea; corpore subtus punctulato, prosterno, segmentis 

 2 ultimis ventralibus sanguineis. L. 3| — 4 lin. 



Sydney, Tasmania. 



Episcaphula parallela. 



Triplax parallela, Montrouz. Ann. Soc. Agr. Lyon. (2) vii. 73 

 (1855). 



Island of Woodlark. 



This difFei'S from E. pictipennis in having the thorax entirely 

 red. 



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