BY W. MACLEAY, ESQ, F.L.S. 309 



the thorax is narrow, wavy, and complete, and there are two 

 small spots behind it. The spots on the elytra are small and are 

 placed one at the scutellum, one a little way from the base near 

 the centre, one about the middle near the suture, one between 

 that and the apex, one very small on the side near the apex, and 

 two also small behind the shoulder. The markings on the under 

 side are much the same as in M. octomaculata. 



683. — MORDELLA ATERRIMA. n. Sp. 



Length 3 lines. 



Elongate, satiny black, with a white spot on the side of the 

 basal segment of the abdomen. 



684. — MoRDELLA AusTRALis, Boisd. Voy. Astrol. II., 

 page 289. 



685. — MoRDELLA BRUNNEIPENNIS. n. Sp. 



Length 2 lines. 



Narrow, black, opaque. Elytra chesnut brown with the 

 suture narrowly margined with black. 



686. — MORDELLA CDSPIDATA. n. Sp. 



Length 1^ lines. 

 Head, thorax, base of elytra, under surface of thorax, and legs, 

 red, all the rest of the elytra and the abdominal segments, black. 

 Anal spine long and very acute. 



RHIPIPHORID^. 



687. — Teigonodera Gerstackeri. n. sp. 

 Length 6| lines. 

 Brown, subopaque, densely and very minutely punctate and 

 clothed with a fine sericeous fulvous pubescence. Scutellum 

 oblong, rounded behind. Elytra moderately attenuated towards 

 the apex and marked with obsolete traces of costoe. Under surface 

 and legs reddish brown and clothed with a very fine cinereous 

 pubescence. Antennse with the first four joints simple, the third 

 longest. 



