450 Mr. A. M. Lea's Notes on 



margins of elytra to beyond the middle, and the under- 

 surface are black ; whilst the legs (except for the two 

 terminal joints which are almost black) are entirely 

 reddish ; the five basal joints of the antennoe are also 

 pale. 



Cadmus calomeloides, n, sp. 



(J. Oblong, moderately shining. Of a rather clingy (but the 

 nnder-surface clear) flavous ; extreme base of prothorax, elytra and 

 scutellum reddish-brown, punctures more or less stained with 

 brown. 



Head densely and rather coarsely punctate, vertex feebly im- 

 pressed. Antenna; passing apex of body, second joint less than half 

 the length of third. Prothorax not twice as wide as long ; rather 

 densely and coarsely punctate ; sides almost regularly decreasing in 

 width from base to apex ; margins rather narrow and entire ; oblique 

 impressions feeble. Sciitellum feebly transverse, apex truncate, sides 

 incurved, base deeply notched ; impunctate. Elytra with feeble 

 subhumeral lobes ; densely and coarsely punctate, punctures sub- 

 seriate in arrangement posteriorly. Pygidium distinctly carinate ; 

 densely and moderately coarsely punctate. Prostemiim flattened 

 along middle, feebly emarginate, hinder apex obtusely rounded. 

 Fifth segment of abdomen large, apex bilobed. 



Length 4 mm. 



9 . Differs in being larger, with antennae at most just passing apex 

 of body, the punctures smaller, not so deeply stained, and on the 

 elytra decidedly geminate in arrangement. Fourth segment of 

 abdomen just traceable across middle, apical fovea large, with 

 distinct lateral extensions. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hal). Victoria (National Museum); S. Australia; 

 N. S. Wales : Gunning (Macleay Museum). 



In general appearance much resembling the genus 

 Calomela. The stains in the ^ do not extend beyond the 

 punctures, but in the $ they frequently do so, especially 

 on the elytra. 



This species agrees to a certain extent with the descrip- 

 tion of Bhomhostcrnics cicatricosus, Chp. ; but Chapuis says 

 of that species, " Elytris foveolatis . . . imequalihus, rotun- 

 datis vel suhquadratis ; " whilst in this species the punc- 

 tures, though coarse, are by no means of unusual size, and 

 are in many places geminate in arrangement. 



