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tint be regarded as the ground color. The black then appears as 
a triangle its base occupying the whole base of the segment and 
its apex on the middle of the disc, but from the apex the black 
coloring is narrowly produced forward and then dilates again 
along the front margin of the prothorax and is very narrowly 
returned along the lateral margins to join the basal black por- 
tion. The species is also notable by the coarsest puncturation of 
its elytra being placed near the apex, and by the sexual struc- 
ture of the anterior claws being less pronounced than is usual in 
the genus—the apical piece of those claws being markedly longer 
than the projecting process of the basal piece ; nevertheless the 
claws in question are evidently different from the hind ones. 
The prothorax is much less brightly colored than in the other 
species with markings on that segment. 
Among the Coccinellide of Mr. Koebele’s Queensland Expedi- 
tion is an example which seems to be the female of this species. 
Apart from the ordinary sexual characters in the claws and fifth 
ventral segment I do not find any difference from the male type 
except in the elytral puncturation being very much closer and 
finer. I find nothing analogous in any other species of the genus 
—the females not being (so far as my observations go) punctured 
differently from the males. But instances of abnormal punctura- 
tion are not very rare among the Australian Coccinellide and I 
am disposed to regard this as probably an instance of that kind. 
N. Queensland ; taken by Mr. Koebele near Cairns. 
P. terminalis, sp. nov. (Fem.) Sat late ovalis; sat convexus ; 
pilis albido-fulvis brevibus suberectis sat dense vestitus ; 
piceo-niger, prothoracis lateribus antennis palpis tibiis tarsis 
abdomineque (hoc in parte basali mediana infuscato) testaceis, 
elytrorum apice summo sanguineo ; capite sparsim subtiliter, 
prothorace subtiliter vix magis crebre, elytris crebre minus 
subtiliter, punctulatis; elytris pone humeros ad_ latera 
modice rotundato-dilatatis; mesosterno haud  carinato ; 
unguiculis omnibus appendiculatis. Long., 13 1.; lat., 141. 
The coloring of this species scarcely differs from that of 
P. lividigaster, Muls., except in the tibiz being all decidedly 
testaceous, the middle of the abdomen blackish at the base and 
the extreme apex of the elytra sanguineous. From lividigaster 
it differs inter alia by its mesosternum not carinate and the 
much closer and decidedly less coarse puncturation of its elytra, 
but is certainly a near ally of that species. 
N. Queensland ; taken by Mr. Koebele near Cairns. 
P. lividigaster, Muls. I have not seen a male of this species, 
and I should judge from his description that Mulsant had only 
the female before him. The two females that have come under 
my notice are both from N.S. Wales. 
