156 THE INSECTS OF GAYNDAH, 



SCAPHIDIID^. 



272. SCAPHIDIDM PUNCTIPENNE. n. sp. 



Length 1| lines. 

 Black, nitid. Thorax broadly margined with red excepting 

 in the middle of the base, and with a transverse row of deep 

 punctures near the basal margin. Elytra, with a row of deep 

 punctures near the base from the suture to near the humeral 

 angles, with two or three longitudinal rows of large and rather 

 distant punctures, and with two red spots on each elytron, one, 

 transverse and near the base, the other, smaller and near the apex. 

 The segments of the abdomen showing beyond the elytra are red 

 with the apex black. The middle of the posterior thighs is red. 



273. — ScAPHiDiuM Mastersii. n. sp. 

 Length 1- lines. 

 This species is smaller than the last, and differs from it in 

 having only the sides of the thorax red, in having only one red 

 spot on each elytron situated near the centre and of a transverse 

 shape, in having the rows of punctures on the elytra more large 

 and distinct, and in having all the abdominal segments red, with a 

 black spot on the pical one. 



274.— SCAPHISOMA POLITUM. n. S.p. 



Length f of a line. 

 Black, nitid and smooth, with a light stria on each side of the 

 suture of the elytra, with the abdomen of a pitchy red, and with 

 the legs and antennse of a pale red. 



275. — SCAPHISOMA PDNCTIPENNE. n. sp. 



Length ^ of a line. 

 Black and nitid, with the elytra and meso and meta-thorax 

 rather thickly punctured, with a light stria on each side of the 

 suture of the elytra, and with the legs red. 



