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



Cadmus perlatus, n. sp. 



$ . Short, subelliptic, rough, feebly shining. Obscure testaceous 

 or testaceous-brown ; middle of sterna and of basal segment of 

 abdomen blackish. 



Upper-surface (including scutellum), densely and moderately 

 coarsely punctate, punctures coarser on jsrotliorax and smaller at 

 apex of elytra than elsewhere. Head feebly longitudinally im- 

 pressed. Antennae extending to second abdominal segment, second 

 joint more than half the length of third, fourth scarcely if at 

 all shorter than fifth. Prothorax about thrice as wide as long, 

 surface uneven ; margins narrow and entire ; oblique impressions 

 very indistinct. Scuteilum transverse, apex less than half the width 

 of base, obtusely ridged along middle. Elytra short, subliumeral 

 lobes feeble, sides rounded and regularly diminishing from base to 

 apex, surface uneven and with traces of feeble longitudinal eleva- 

 tions. Pijcjidium almost or quite covered by elytra. Apex of 

 prosternum obtusely rounded. Fourth segment of abdomen semi- 

 circularly emarginate and not traceable across middle ; apical fovea 

 unusually large, without lateral extensions. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. N. S. Wales : Sydney (H. J. Carter and Macleay 

 Museum). 



An unusually wide species with the outline more 

 rounded than usual ; the upper-surface has a mottled 

 appearance, principally owiug to the punctures being 

 darker than the general surface. 



A larger specimen (5^ mm. and also from Sydney) has 

 the upper-surface not at all mottled, but the under-surface 

 more irregularly stained with brown and the femora also 

 stained. At a glance it appears to be distinct, but I can 

 find no structural characters warranting its separation. 



Cadmus nothus, n. sp. 



^ . Oblong-elliptic, subopaque. Testaceous-red, a narrow streak 

 on face terminated between front of eyes, a longitudinal curved spot 

 towards each side of prothorax and nearer base than apex and 

 extreme base of prothorax, elytra and scutellum black, terminal 

 joint of antennse and portion of flanks of metasternum infuscate ; 

 elytra (but the punctures the colour of prothorax), sides of prothorax, 

 pygidium, abdomen and portions of sterna flavous. 



Head, prothorax and scutellum rather coarsely and very densely 

 punctate, the elytra with larger punctures, but round and clearly 



