210 Rev. H. Clark’s Notes on the 
country. If only these could be induced to pay attention to the 
beautiful forms of insect-life around them, the advantage would be 
twofold: not only would they find, to their surprise, that such 
a rational pursuit would beguile many weary hours, and give real 
interest to a locality which perchance otherwise would be the 
opposite of interesting, but science itself would be the gainer, for 
we might thus obtain some knowledge of the life-history of insects 
of which at present we know nothing, except the external forms. 
When we are told that upwards of thirty species of Coleoptera 
have been found in the court of the British Museum itself, in the 
very heart of London, we may be sure that there is no spot on 
the earth, however apparently uninviting, that will not amply repay 
investigation. 
1. H. Bakemellii, n. sp. (Pl. XIV. fig. 1.) 
Ovalis, depressus, niger, flavo- maculatus: capite flavo, ad 
apicem vel nigro-bimaculato, vel omnino nigro; thorace nigro, 
lateribus vittAque transversali in medio interrupta flavis ; 
elytris ovalibus, pone medium depressis, subtilissimé punc- 
tatis, punctorum etiam seriebus duabus obscuris (hac juxta 
medium penitus obsoleta), nigris, maculis utrinque 4 flavis 
magnis, 1™ ad scutellum subcirculari, 2"4? apud humeros 
juxta marginem longitudinaliter inzequali, 3* fascia lata pone 
medium (haud suturam attinente) transversim disposiia, 4 
subcirculari juxta apicem, haud suturam sed marginem ap- 
proximante, apice quoque subtiliter flavo-maculato ; antennis 
flavis: corpore subtus nigro; pedibus rufo-flavis, femoribus 
posticis fuscis. 
Long. corp. lin. 7; lat. lin, 4. 
The species may be recognized by its tolerably even post-medial 
oroad transverse bar of flavous, which, in form, is unlike that of 
any other species of the genus. I have received several examples 
at different times, which present only two forms of pattern; the 
typical one, of which the above is the diagnosis, and a darker 
pattern, in which all the maculz are considerably reduced in size, 
and the transverse bar of the elytra commuted into two trans- 
versely-arranged spots. ‘The transverse flavous bar of the thorax 
is also, in this latter pattern, obliterated. 
This handsome species appears to be not uncommon in the 
neighbourhood of Moreton Bay, whence I have received it from 
my valued correspondent, Mr. Diggles. I name it after my friend 
R. Bakewell, Esq., who kindly supplied the first example to my 
