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margin, some way from the shoulder, is directed obliquely 

 downwards, then turns at an acute angle obliquely 

 upwards (not to a level Avith the starting point), and then 

 turns at an acute angle downwards, and joins the suture. 

 The aculeus is very long. 



Hab.- — S. Australia (Bakewell). 



Mordella ornata, sp. n. 



Nigra, aureo-sericea ; thorace medio paulo infuscato ; 

 elytris lateribus apiceque fusco-nigris, fascia ante apicem 

 aureo-sericea. 



Long. 2\ lin. 



Black, but almost entirely clothed above and below with 

 golden pubescence. The thorax has the disk rather 

 darker. Elytra with the margins and apical third brownish- 

 black, with a fascia composed of four united spots (two on 

 each elytron) at a little distance from the apex, the outer 

 spots the smaller. The abdomen has the usual sub-lateral 

 dark spots. 



Hab. — N. W. Coast of Australia. 



This species is a moderately robust one, not very much 

 attenuated posteriorly. The head is not very broad and 

 is moderately narrowed in front ; the antennae are rather 

 slender and have the 5tli to 10th joints about as long as 

 broad. There is the appearance of a small dusky spot 

 within the shoulder, and a dusky stripe parallel with the 

 suture, on one of the examples, but are wanting in the 

 second. 



Note. — There is in the Museum Collection a single 

 specimen closely resembling the above, but probably a 

 distinct species. The thorax is partially clothed with 

 golden pubescence, with a broad sutural stripe and a spot 

 on each side obscure fuscous, all ill-defined. The elytra 

 are fuscous-black, with a fine sutural line and an oblique 

 stripe extending from the shoulder to about the middle of 

 the elytron golden. Length 2 lin. 



Mordella hell a, sp. n. 



Fusco-nigra, angusta ; capite thoraceque aureo-sericeis ; 

 elytris sub-purpurascentibus, singulis macula juxta basin, 

 suturte parte basali, fasciisque duabus angustis (una ante 

 medium dentata, altera ante apicem), aureo-sericeis; 

 antennis, palpis, pedibus anterioribus, femoribusque inter- 

 mediis pallide piceis. 



Long. 1:^ lin. 



