COLEOPTEEA.—LEA. 239 



STENOTARSUS PISONIiE sp. no v. 



Eeddish or castaneo-llavous, anteunte partly black or blackish. Moderately 

 densely clothed with pale upright hair. 



Head almost impunctate, with a shallow interooular impression. Antennae 

 short; club rather stout. Prothorax widely transverse, sides strongly rounded, 

 apex much narrower than base and semicircularly emarginate, sublateral striae 

 deep, dilated at base; almost impunctate. Elytra at base slightly wider than 

 prothorax, sides gently rounded ; with regular rows of fairly large punctures, in 

 feeble stri»; interstices with small punctures. Length, 3-5-4-5 mm. 



i7a&.— Queensland : Cairns district (F. P. Dodd, C. J. Wild, and A. M. 

 Lea) ; Little Mulgrave and Coen Rivers (H. Hacker). — Type, 1.12021 in South 

 Australian Museum; cotype, C/2336 in Queensland Museum. 



Structurally close to aS^. arithmeticus, but entirely pale except for the 

 antenna?; of these the three terminal joints appear to be always black, the four 

 or five preceding ones vary from blackish to hardly darker than the basal ones. 

 Some of the specimens are paler and some more densely clothed than others, 

 probably due to better preservation. ]Many of the specimens from ]\Ir. Dodd 

 were trapped by sticky seeds of Fisonia hrunoniana. 



STENOTARSUS PICTICOLLIS sp. nov. 



Eeddish tlavous, three spots on prothorax conjoined at base ; seutellum, 

 two large transverse spots on elytra, most of antenna, and femora black. Length, 

 3 -25-3 -5 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Brisbane (IL Hacker and E. Illidge). — Type, I. 12025 

 in South Australian Museum ; cotype, C/2337 in Queensland ]\Iuseum. 



Structurally close to ^S'. arithmeticus, but head and two spots on prothorax 

 pale, the blotch on each elytron before the middle not 3-shaped, and without 

 apical spots. It is slightly narrower than the preceding species, but the sculpture 

 and clothing are as noted for it. The dark parts of the prothorax are a large 

 equilateral triangle, and a spot about two-thirds of its size on each side, thus 

 leaving a large pale subtriangular spot on each side of apex; on the elytra the 

 spots are of somewhat irregular shape, and appear like a fascia widely interrupted 

 in middle, and not touching the sides; three or four of the basal joints of antenna? 

 are obscurely diluted with red, and the tibiiB and coxjb are usually deeply 

 infuseated, 



STENOTARSUS QUINQUENOTATUS sp. ncv. 



Eed or reddish iiavous; a subtriangular spot on prothorax, seutellum, 

 four spots on elytra, antennae (basal joints obscurely diluted with red), femora, 

 and tibiffi black. Length, 3-3-25 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland (Blackburn's collection). New South Wales: Gosford 

 (H. J. Carter) ; Ourimbah (Dr. E. W. Ferguson) ; Wollongong, Sydney (A. M. 

 Lea). — Type, 1.12026 in South Au.stralian Museum; cotype, C/2338 in Queens- 

 land Museum. 



