the Coleopterous Family Erotylidce. (35) 411 

 Episcaphula xanthosticta^ sp. n. 



Depressa, nigra, nitida, subovata ; capite confertim punctato, 

 thorace transverso, basi bisinuato, obsolete punctulato, punctis 

 majoribus raris impressis, fulvo, basi nigro; elytris obsolete 

 seriatim punctatis, interstitiis vix punctulatis, singulis maculis 

 2 Ifete croceis, 1 niajore basilari ovata, 1 subapicali minore) ; an- 

 tennis (clava nigra) pedibusque rvifis. L. 3 J lin. 



Waigion (Wallace). 



Antennae short, eyes more finely granulated, 



Episcaphula australis. 



Episcapha Australis, Lac. Erot. 58. 12. 



Triidax vittata, Montrouz. Ann. Soc. Agr. Lyon. vii. 73 (1855). 



Ejnscapha austro-caledonica, Fauv. Bull. Norm. vii. 172, T. x. 

 f. 78. 



Deyrolli, Perr. Ann. Linn. Lyon. xi. 216. 



Ceram, Batcbian, Timor, Amboina, Makassar (Wallace), More- 

 ton Bay, Sydney, N. Caledonia. 



This species is very variable but may be recognised by the 

 sculpture of the thorax ; the prosternum is emarginate behind. 



Episcaphula Reichei. 



Episcapha Eeichei, Fauv. Bull. Norm. vii. T. x. f. 77. 



New Caledonia. 



This is closely allied to E. australis ; the underside is that of 

 E. pictipennis, as are also the elytra ; the thorax, however, is like 

 that of E. australis, but the sculpture is unlike either, 



Episcaphula pictipennis, sp. n. 



Elongata, nigra, nitida, capite crebre punctato, vertice sangui- 

 neo-maculato ; thorace transverso, basi fere marginato, evidenter 

 punctato, lateribits et basi punctis majoribus sparsim impressis; 

 sanguineo, maculis 2 magnis discoidalibus nigris, basi attingentibus ; 

 elytris punctato- striatis, interstitiis punctulatis, fasciis 2 ochraceis 

 (1 basilari acute dcutata, 1 lunata infra medium) maculaque sub- 

 apicali sanguinea; corporc pubtus punctulato, prostei-no, segmentis 

 2 ultimis ventralibus sanguineis. L. 3|' — 4 lin, 



Sydney, Tasmania, 



Episcaphula parallela. 



Triplax parallela, Montrouz. Ann. Soc. Agr. Lyon. (2) vii. 73 

 (1855). 



Island of Woodlark. 



This differs from E. 2)ictip>ennis in having tlie thorax entirely 

 red, 



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