164 THE INSECTS OF GAYNDAH, 



covered with cinuamon-coloui-ed scales interspersed with white 

 near the scutellum and behind the middle, and spotted with 

 black all over, with three costse on each elytron, and a small 

 fascicle at the basal end of the second and third, and a larger 

 one near the apex of the first costa. Body beneath black. 



L. lacera Pasc, more resemble this species than any other 

 hitherto described, the species are however very diffex'ent. 



29G. — Leperina Gayndahensis. n. sp. 



Length 7 lines. 

 Head depressed, black, coarsely punctured, thinly clothed 

 with small yellow scales, with two velvety black spots on the 

 vertex. Thorax with a broad dense mass of yellow scales on the 

 sides, not reaching the anterior angles, with a broad fascia of 

 velvety black between that and the middle, and with the median 

 line coarsely punctured, depressed and almost free of scales. 

 Scutellum transverse and semi-circular. Elytra of a brassy green 

 colour where exposed, covered with large deep punctures, tricostate 

 and marked with numerous velvety black spots, which behind 

 form two narrow fascias, with the punctures on the black spots 

 showing under a lens a deep fieiy red bottom, while the others 

 are occupied each with a round yellow scale. Body beneath and 

 legs brownish black, punctate and opaque. 



297. — Lepekina Bdrnettensis. n. sp. 

 Length 4| lines. 

 Head black, coarsely punctured and rather depressed in front, 

 with a fascicle of cinnamon-coloured and white scales on each 

 side near the eyes. Thorax punctate with a dense mass of broad 

 flattened white scales on the sides, a smooth elevated median line, 

 and on each side of it near the anterior margin, three fascicles of 

 long black scales, one in advance of the others and on the mar- 

 gin. Scutellum rounded at the apex. Elytra piceous, punctate, 

 tricostate and thickly clothed with cinnamon-coloured scales, in- 

 terspersed with a few white ones, with a black fascicle at the base 

 between the second and third cost^, another about the middle 



