COLEOFTEEA.—LEA. 235 



i)ut this is probably due to immaturity. The presternum and outlines are much 

 as in T. insueta and T. veJiustula. One of ^Ir. Carter's specimens was labelled 

 as from West Australia. 



EUXESTUS VULNERATUS sp. nov. 

 Black, a large basal patch on elytra red, muzzle and under surface 

 castaneous, legs and antenna? flavous. Upper surface with sparse, sub-erect 

 pubescence. 



Head evenly convex ; with small but sharply defined punctures ; a shallow 

 depression on each side of clypeal suture. Antenna? short, club large, slightly 

 wider than long. Prothorax at base about thrice as wide as the median length, 

 base bisinuate, apex evenly incurved to middle, margins very narrow, punctures 

 as on head. Elytra with outlines continuous with those of prothorax, widest at 

 about basal third; with rows of small punctures. Abdomen with eoxal lines 

 traceable to near apex of basal segment. Length, 1-75-2 mm. 



Hal). — Queensland: Little Mulgrave Eiver (H. Hacker); Cairns (C. J. 

 Wild). — Type, /. 12015 in South Australian Museum; cotype, C/2331 in Queens- 

 land Museum. 



A briefly elliptic, strongly convex species, very distinct by a large blood- 

 red patch on the elytra; it covers part of the base (leaving a rather narrow 

 strip of black on each side), then extends rather narrowly to each side, from there 

 its margin extends obliquely towards the suture, and then is truncated across 

 the suture itself, at the middle (on some specimens its posterior margin is 

 rounded) ; the tips of the elytra are usually obscurely diluted with red, and the 

 dark parts sometimes have a coppery gloss. On one specimen the large patch 

 is flavous, and the apex of the elytra is conspicuously pale. The clothing of the 

 upper surface appears to be easily abraded, as several of the specimens are now 

 almost glabrous. The elytral punctures are all small, but are fairly distinct on 

 the paler parts. 



EUXESTUS BIVULNERATUS sp. nov. 



Black, a large blood-red spot on each shoulder, legs, antennfB, palpi, and 

 elytral epipleura? reddish flavous. Glabrous. Length, 2-2-25 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: JMount Tambourine (A. M. Lea). — Type, 1.11784 in 

 South Australian IMuseum ; cotype, 0/2342 in Queensland Museum. 



Structurally extremely close to the preceding species, but slightly larger, 

 elytral markings, which are of the same blood-red colour, extending from each 

 side to about one-third from the suture, so as to resemble an interrupted fascia ; 

 cl.vpeal impressions deeper and punctures smaller, especially on the prothorax 

 and elytra. The dark parts of the upper surface, on ten specimens, are deep 

 polished black, but on another they have a slight coppery gloss; the extreme 

 tips of the elytra are sometimes obscurely diluted with red. The coxal lines are 

 distinct, and enclose a plate on each side, but these are without punctures. 



