Genera and Species of Coleoptera. 101 



small and mostly white scales, except on the sides of the latter, where 

 they are drawn out into long, linear, curved laminae, on each side a long' 

 fascicle of whitish hairs mixed with black, and nearly meeting on the 

 median line anteriorly ; scutellum triangular, with a tuft of erect white 

 scales ; elytra parallel, the scales towards the suture principally white, 

 but more or less black at the side, long and filiform at the base, and 

 spatulate on the exterior margins, a fascicle of long, erect black scales 

 on the middle of each near the suture, and posteriorly another of mixed 

 black and white scales; body beneath, legs, antennae, and lip dark 

 brown or nearly black. Length 4 lines. 



In this curious species, the lines on the elytra are nearly covered 

 by the longer and more densely set scales. In all the Australian 

 and New Zealand Leperince which I have examined, I have never 

 noticed any other than simple, undivided eyes. 



Leperina lacera. 



L. oblonga, picea, supra nigro-squamosa, albo varia, fasciculisque brevibus 

 induta ; elytris lateribus rotundatis. 



Hah. Australia (Melbourne). 



Oblong, pitchy-brown, partially covered with short black scales, and 

 sparingly varied with white ; head coarsely punctured, with two black 

 fascicles between the eyes ; prothorax with a smooth elevated median 

 line, the sides strongly and deeply punctured, above four short black 

 fascicles anteriorly, the margins densely covered with long, white, ap- 

 pressed scales ; scutellum triangular ; elytra rounded at the sides, the 

 scales almost entirely black, spatulate at the margins, with a single 

 short black fascicle on each shoulder ; body beneath, legs, and antennae 

 dark ferruginous. Length 4^ lines. 



Bitoma [Colydiidae]. 



Herbst, Die Kafer, v. p. 25. 



Bitoma serricollis. 



B. depressa, fusca ; prothorace punctato utrinque bicostato, lateribus ser- 



rulatis ; pedibus rufo-ferrugineis. 

 Hah. Australia (Melbourne). 



Depressed, dark brown ; head coarsely punctured, grooved at the side 

 below the eyes, and somewhat three-lobed anteriorly ; prothorax trans- 

 versely subquadrate, coarsely punctured, with two costae on each side, 

 the exterior crenate, continuous with its fellow in front, the sides strongly 

 serrulate, the anterior angle produced ; elytra a little wider than the 

 prothorax, with five narrow costae on each, the intervals transversely 

 plicate from a double row of deeply impressed punctures ; antennae and 

 legs rusty-red ; body beneath coarsely punctured. Length 2 lines. 

 A little broader and more depressed than Bitoma crenata ; but, as 

 far as external characters go, there can be no doubt as to its genus. 



