468 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or I ittle-hnown 



however, a somewhat elongate metasternum, a character which that 



learned entomologist may probably consider inconsistent with such 



affinity. 



Osjpidus clirysomeloides. 



O. fiisco-aeneus ; el}i;ris cupreis, subtiliter punctatis ; antennis fuscis. 



Hah. Queensland. 



Dark brownish bronze ; head closely pimctured ; lip broad, scarcely 

 emarginate ; prothorax very minutely and closely pmictured, the sides 

 with small vermicular elevations ; scutellimi broadly triangular ; elytra 

 copper-brown, with numerous small punctm*es and several indistinct 

 longitudinal raised lines; body beneath and legs reddish copper, shining ; 

 antennae dark brown. Length 6 lines. 



CossypJiiis * OdewaJmii. 



C. ovatus, niodice elongatus, testaceus, limbo subtilissime reticulato ; 

 prothorace baud carinato; elytris striate -pimctatis, insertionis linea 

 secimdum elytra biseriatim punctata. 



Hab. South Australia (Gawler). 



Ovate, slightly elongate, testaceous, rim subdiaphanous, the reticida- 

 tions exceedingly delicate, and scarcely visible imder the lens, except 

 in certain lights ; prothorax without any carina, almost obsoletely 

 pimctiured, darker than the rim ; scutellum triangular ; elytra striato- 

 punctate, the punctures rather coarse and irregular, the junction of the 

 rim with the disk marked with two rows of large punctures ; body be- 

 neath, legs, &c. testaceous. Length 2 lines. 



The punctures in two rows at the junction of the disk with the 

 rim of the elytra, although large, are not veiy well defined ; but they 

 are distinctive, and differentiate this species from any of those de- 

 scribed by the Marquis de Breme, none of which, however, are from 

 Australia. Since his essay, M. Peyron and Dr. Gerstaecker have 

 each pubhshed one, from Syria and Mozambique respectively. I 

 have two more undescribed from India. 



Eutelusf ovatus. 



E. niger, indumento terrulento griseo tectus ; prothorace medio bicalloso ; 

 elytris ovatis, tuberculis numerosis irregulariter dispersis. 



Hah. Natal. 



Black, covered with a thick greyish or reddish-grey secretion mixed 

 with short hairs ; clypeus short, transverse, front of the head \vith a 

 few glossy black tubercles ; prothorax transversely subglobose, in the 



* Ohvier, En torn, iii. No. 44 bis, p. 3. 



t Sober, Mem. Accad. Torino, ser. 2, vi. p. 268 ; Lacordairo, Gen. v. p. 305. 



