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but the head and prothorax are set somewhat sparsely with short 
crisp silvery hairs ; its epipleure entire and horizontal furnish a 
very distinctive character, they are almost exactly like those of 
Epilachna. This genus is not very near to any other known to 
me; in Dr. Chapuis’ arrangement of the Coccinellide its place 
is in the group Scymnites. In my tabulation of the Australian 
Coccinellide. (Tr. Roy. Soc., 8.A., XI., pp. 186-7) it falls beside 
the species that I have called “ EKupalea ?” from which it differs 
by its incomplete abdominal lamelle. 
G. quadrimaculatus, sp. nov. Fere circularis; nitidus; niger, 
elytris maculis binis magnis rufis ornatis, nonnullorum 
exemplorum (?marium) capite prothoracis lateribus femori- 
busque anticis plus minusve testaceis; supra crebrius sub- . 
tiliter (latera versus magis fortiter) punctulatus ; prothorace 
fortiter transverso, hujus basi quam elytrorum basis vix 
angustiori ; corpore subtus sublevi. lLong., #1.; lat., #1. 
(vix). 
SCYMNOMORPHA, gen. nov. 
Corpus pubescens ; oculi subtiliter granulati sat paralleli ; clypeus 
antice truncatus; antenne ad basin aperte breves 11- 
articulate ; prosternum sat elongatum, antice transversim 
eequaliter sat fortiter convexum haud carinatum ; scutellum 
modicum ; lamelle abdominales integre, antice extus longe 
intra marginem lateralem terminate, postice segmenti basalis 
ventralis apicem nullo modo attingentes; elytrorum epip- 
leurze horizontales longe ante apicem terminate, haud foveo- 
late ; femora haud in sulcos recepta ; unguiculi appendicu- 
lati. 
This genus is certainly near Scymnus (Mulsant’s subgenus 
Pullus), but the prosternum wide in front, and evenly convex 
without any depression or carinz, seems to justify its separation. 
The first ventral suture is well defined, and scarcely less strongly 
impressed than the others. The facies is that of an elongate 
Scymnus. 
S. duplopunctulata, sp. nov. Sat elongato-ovalis; albido- 
pubescens; convexa; nigra, corpore subtus rufescenti, 
antennis pedibusque rufis; capite prothoraceque crebre 
subtilissime elytris dupliciter (crebre subtiliter et fortiter 
sparsim) punctulatis. Long., 13 1.; lat., 11. 
Victoria ; Alpine District. 
SCYMNODES. 
S. Koebeli, Blackb. Among the Coccinellide recently sent to 
me by Mr. Koebele are a number of examples of Scymnodes, 
which I think must be referred to this species, although in that 
