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rounded ; elytra wide, one quarter as broad again as the thorax^ 

 and one-tliird longer ; in the male the seventh segment slightly 

 incised above, curving outside the incision, on each side 

 dentate. 



Length. — 2 mill. 



Localities. — America, Europe, New South Wales, Port 

 Augusta. 



Ohs. — This insect appears to be cosmopolitan. 



H. politula, Fauvel, II., p. 113. 



In appearance and colour very much like Calodera australis, 

 but belongs to another genus. The antenna? not clubbed, a little 

 thickened about the apex, longer, the fourth joint subquadrate, 

 those following it slightly broader, somewhat transverse, the 

 eleventh paler ; the punctuation of the head and thorax (both 

 of which are brilliant) is obsolete, that of the elytra very fre- 

 quently in fours, very fine, that on the segments is the finest, 

 2-5 pretty dense, sixth more scattered ; head smaller, narrower, 

 and oblong, with smaller eyes ; thorax more obscure, much 

 longer, narrower, slightly transverse, a little narrower ante- 

 riorly than posteriorly, the sides somewhat rounded, the 

 posterior extremities almost wholly rounded, the basal pits 

 obsolete ; elytra narrower, with pretty thick yellow 

 pubescence. 



Length.— 2},, 2], mill. 



Locality. — Adelaide. 



Ohs. — " This sj^ecies appears to be the most common of those 

 vdiich I have seen from Australia." 



KEY TO SPECIES OF CALODEEA. 



a. Body rosy ; head, external angles of the elytra and an 



abdominal band black. australis. 



I. Body black. crih^clla. 



C. australis, Fauvel, I., p. 119. 

 Same shape as Ischnoglossa prolixa, but smaller ; subnitid,. 

 the abdomen being the brightest, a scattered yellow ])ubescence, 

 convex, red, the first joint of antenna^, anus and feet testa- 

 ceous ; head, antennas elytra (more or less about the dorsal 

 region), the whole of the 4-5 abdominal seguients and the sixth 

 about the apex either pitch brown or pitch black ; aiitenna> 

 stout, the 5-10 joints strongly trausverse, eleventh conical and 

 of good size ; head oblong, with a small transverse impression 

 between the eyes, rather densely and finely punctate, thorax 

 more densely so, the elytra with a little deeper punctures and 

 .somewhat rough, those of the abdomen scattered but fine ; 

 thorax a little broader than head, rather transverse, the sides 

 very nuu-h rounded dorsally, the base slightly narrowed, a 



