Genera and Species of Coleoptera. 29 
Obovate, pale ferruginous, rather sparsely covered with greyish-white 
scales; head dark brown, deeply set in the prothorax ; eyes black, rather 
small, vertical, remote; antenne rufous, the club partially unilateral, 
with its first two joints very transverse; external maxillary lobe 
narrow, ciliated, the internal obsolete; maxillary palpi with the ter- 
minal joint elongate-ovate, of the labial shortly ovate ; prothorax more 
than twice as broad as long, the sides dilated, their edges with rounded 
serratures; scutellum transverse, rounded behind; elytra narrower than 
the prothorax at the base, dilated at the shoulder, then gradually rounded 
with the margin less and less dilated to the apex, its edges serrated and 
fringed with setose scales (where the scales have fallen off, the elytra 
are seen to be crenate-striate, with traces of darker or brownish spots, 
which form a sort of band, one near the base, the other towards the 
apex); body beneath dark brown, the legs paler and covered with 
smaller scales. Length 53 lines. 
Lererina [ Trogositidee ]. 
Erichson in Germar, Zeitschr. fiir die Entom. vy. p. 453. 
Leperina turbata. 
L. late oblonga, aterrima, supra fusco-nigro squamosa, fasciculis nigris 
plus minus elongatis induta ; elytris subparallelis, maculis duabus albis 
posticis. 
Hab. Australia (Sydney ?). 
Broadly oblong, deep black, rather closely covered with small black 
and greyish scales, mixed with more or less elongate, erect or semi-erect 
scaly hairs, generally collected together in fascicles; head and pro- 
thorax with coarse scattered punctures, from which the scales arise ; 
these are principally directed forwards, and are mostly greyish, a few 
only being black; a fascicle of black hair-like scales over each eye, and 
a large one nearly adjoining on each side the prothorax, on the latter 
a slightly raised median line; scutellum triangular, fasciculate; elytra 
nearly parallel, with two strongly marked cost, three long black 
fascicles (longitudinally disposed), among many smaller ones, on each, 
between the middle and apical fascicles a silvery-white patch ; legs and 
body beneath black, coarsely punctured, and sparsely covered with 
ereyish setose scales; the prosternum smooth and polished. Length 
6 lines. 
Tn its long scaly fascicles this species resembles Leperina cirrosa 
(ante, vol. i. p. 100), but is much larger and proportionally broader, 
and the white scales are chiefly confined to a single spot on each 
elytron. 
Crrve [ Nitidulidee ]. 
Caput late triangulare, ante antennas sulcatum. Antenne breves, duo- 
decim-articulate ; clava ovata, triarticulata. Palpi crassi, cylindrici. 
