424 On new Coleoptera from Queensland. 



This species is at once separated from B. (/ulosa, Newm., 

 by the thorax being ahnost devoid of punctures, and with no 

 sharp angle at the side ; besides the two discoidal spots, the 

 posterior angles below, and sometimes the hind margin, are 

 black. The elytra are rather dull, coarsely punctured, tricos- 

 tate, with a large yellow spot below the scutellum, and one on 

 each lateral margin about the middle, as in B. gulosa. The 

 sternum and the base of the abdomen are sometimes yel- 

 lowish. 



Hah. Sydney. Brit. Mus. 



Bracliytria pictttj sp. n. 



B. nigra, nitida ; capitc thoraceque margine antico ochraceis, hoc fere 

 laevi, medio baud ampliato, postice angustato ; elytris postice 

 angustatis, tricostatis, crebre punctatis, medio pallide flavo-nota- 

 tis, humeris sauguineis, apice famoso ; femoribus apice ocbraceo- 

 annulatis ; abdomine basi piceo. 



Long. 6| lin. 



The colours of this species would probably vary ; but the fol- 

 lowing characters will serve to distinguish it from B. varia : — 

 Eyes scarcely prominent. Thorax regularly arched, with no 

 impressions towards the anterior and posterior angles, scarcely 

 broader across the middle than in front, narrowed behind, 

 but not angular at the sides. The punctuation of the elytra 

 is much the same ; but the punctures are not so confluent at 

 the ajiex. The metasternum is very closely and somewhat 

 coarsely punctured in the middle, less closely but distinctly 

 punctured at the sides ; whereas in B. varia the metasternum 

 is finely punctured, and not much more closely in the middle 

 than at the sides. 



Hah. Queensland. Brit. Mus. 



Ohrida comatOy Pascoe. 



Specimens of this species have just been received from 

 Queensland, some with entirely black legs and antennae, others 

 with them entirely red. 



Phytophaga. 

 Cassididse. 



Hoplionota dor.tah'sj sp. n. 



H. breviter oblonga, subnitida, flava ; thorace dorso piceo, utrinque 

 plagis duabus punctatis, lateribns flavis profunda baud crebre 

 punctatis ; scutcllo nigro ; elytris disco piceo, crebre fortiter 

 punctato, elevationibus nitidis instructo, marginibus jiiceis macu- 



