Oenera and Species of Coleoptcra. 7 



Obovato, palo fcrnioinous, rather sparsely covered with frreyish-white 

 scales ; head darlv brown, deeply set in the prothorax ; eyes black, rather 

 small, vertical, remote ; antenmc rufous, the club partially unilateriil, 

 with its first two joints veiy transverse; external maxillary lobe 

 naiTow, ciliated, the internal obsolete ; maxillaiy palpi with the ter- 

 minal joint elon<?ato-ovate, of the labial shortly ovate ; prothorax more 

 than twice as broad as long, the sides dilated, their edges with rounded 

 serratures ; scutellum transverse, rounded behind ; elytra narrower than 

 the prothorax at the ba.'^e, dilated at the shoulder, then gradually rounded 

 with the margin less and less dilated to the apex, its edges serrated and 

 fringed with setose scales (where the scales have fallen off, the elytra 

 are seen to be crenate-striate, with traces of darker or brownish spots, 

 which fonn a sort of band, one near the base, the other towards the 

 apex) ; body beneath dark bro^v^a, the legs paler and covered with 

 suialler scales. Length 3^ lines. 



Leperlna [Trogositidae]. 

 Erichson in Germar, Zeitschr. fiir die Entom. v. p. 453. 



Leperina turhata. 



L. late oblonga, aterrima, supra fusco-nigro squamosa, fasciculis nigris 

 plus minus elongatis induta ; elytris subparallelis, maculis duabus albis 

 posticis. 



Hah. Australia (Sydney ?). 



Broadly oblong, deep black, rather closely covered with small black 

 and gi-eyish scales, mixed with more or less elongate, erect or semi-erect 

 scaly hairs, generally collected together in fascicles; head and pro- 

 thorax with coarse scattered pimctiu'es, from which the scales arise ; 

 these are principally directed forwards, and are mostly greyish, a few 

 only being black ; a fascicle of black hair-like scales over each eye, and 

 a large one nearly adjoining on each side the prothorax, on the latter 

 a slightly raised median line; scutellum triangxilar, fasciculate; el}^ra 

 nearly parallel, with two strongly marked costae, three long black 

 fascicles (longitudinally disposed), among many smaller ones, on each, 

 between the middle and apical fascicles a silvery- white patch ; legs and 

 body beneath black, coarsely punctured, and sparsely covered with 

 greyish setose scales; the prostemum smooth and polished. Length 

 6 lines. 



In its long^ scaly fascicles this species resembles Lejperina cirrosa 

 (ante, vol. i. p. 100), but is much larger and proportionally broader, 

 and the white scales are chiefly confined to a single spot on each 

 elytron. 



Crine [Nitidiilidae]. 



Caput late triangulare, ante antennas sulcatum. AntenncB breves, duo- 

 deeim-articulatae ; clava ovata, triarticulata. Paljn crassi, cylindrici. 



