230 Mr. C. O. AVaterhonse on new Colcoptera 



Head very broad. Antennre rather short, the 5th to 

 10th joints broad, the 7th to 10th a little broader than 

 long, narrowed at their base. The mesial lobe of the 

 base of the thorax is rather broad and nearly straight. 

 The elytra are moderately attenuated posteriorly, clothed 

 with yellowish pubescence, with a transverse band across 

 the middle, and the apex blackish. The band on the 

 elytra ascends a little on the suture. The first four joints 

 of the antennee are slightly pitchy. The under side of the 

 insect is clothed with yellowish piibescence, the sides of 

 the metasternum and abdomen being dark, with a silky 

 spot on the side of each segment. 



Hah. — Clarence Kiver, E. Australia. 



Mordella aterrima, McLeay (Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. 

 Wales, ii. p. 309). " Length, 3 lines. Elongate, satiny 

 black, with a white spot on the side of the basal segment 

 of the abdomen." 



I know of only one Australian species which agrees 

 with this brief description, and that is a Tomoxia* 



Hah. Moreton Bay. 



Mordella multiguttata, sp. n. 



Atra, velutina ; capite, pectore femoribusque flavo- 

 griseo-pubescentibus ; thorace guttis undecim (5 ad mar- 

 ginem anticam, 2 discoidalibus, et 4 basalibus), singulo 

 elytro maculis septem (2 basalibus, 3 ante medium, 1 

 majore ad medium, altera ante apicem), abdomiueque 

 maculis plurimis flavo-tomentosis. 



Long. 4 — 5j lin. 



Closely resembles M. leucosticto, Germ., and of the 

 same form and size. The thorax has eleven yellow spots, 

 five on the anterior margin, of which the central one is 

 cuneiform and the two on each side are joined together 

 on the margin: there are two ovate spots on the disk, 

 and four on the posterior margin, the two outer ones 

 being much the larger. Each elytron has seven spots, 

 one close to the scutellum, one close to it in the middle 

 of the base, three small ones arranged in a triangle '." 

 before the middle, a lai'ge spot in the middle close to the 

 suture, and a large subapical one in the form of an 

 oblique S. There are also two large yellow spots on 



* Mordella Mellisaiana, Woll., from St. Helena, is a MordclUxtena. 



