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species of this family ; at any rate under the condition in which 
I find myself of not having available for comparison a large 
collection of Cassidide from all parts of the world. 
As a species this insect is very easily recognisable. The red 
color of its elytra extending over the explanate margin (which is 
fairly wide, but at its widest considerably narrower than the 
interval between it and the suture) except on a conspicuous 
yellow transparent patch placed at about the middle of its length 
characterises it quite unmistakeably. 
N. Queensland ; given to me by Mr. French. 
C. simplaria, sp. nov. Subrotundata; sat nitida; sat convexa ; 
testacea, supra parte convexa discoidali indeterminate 
obscuriori; antennis fere ad coxas posticas attingentibus, 
subfiliformibus, articulis 3°—5° inter se sat «qualibus (quam 
1"\ gracilioribus vix brevioribus, quam 2° gracilioribus 
multo longioribus) ; prothorace transverso fere sequaliter 
elliptico, vix manifeste punctulato, parte discoidali a margine 
explanato sulculo interrupto curvato et 4-foveolato leviter 
impressa distincta ; elytris vix striatis irregulariter fortiter 
seriatim punctulatis, hic illic irregulariter (et longitudinaliter 
et transversim) areis leviter convexis instructis, pone scut- 
ellum haud gibbosis, humeris callosis; tarsorum articulo 
apicali ultra precedentem vix excedenti; corpore subtus fere 
leeving uong:, 24 1. > lat.,.22 
Bee oe 
An almost uniformly brownish testaceous insect, with the con 
vex portion of the upper surface here and there more decidedly 
brown than the rest of the surface. Not quite so nitid as is the 
preceding (C’. ma/ticolor) and distinguishable also by the convex 
disc of the prothorax being separated from the explanate margin 
by an exceptionally distinct but much interrupted furrow in 
which there are four well marked large impressions. The 
shoulders of the elytra are rather strongly projected forward 
(reaching the middle of the prothorax), thir front angles being 
obtuse. The more or less smooth (somewhat convex) spaces on 
the elytra are very ill defined and consist of two or three trans- 
verse and obliquely longitudinal patches placed in the neigh- 
borhood of the front half of the suture. The prothorax is very 
finely and closely but scarcely distinctly punctulate. 
N. Queensland ; taken near Cairns by Mr. Cowley. 
CASSIDA. 
C. Adelaide, sp. nov. Ovalis; sat nitida; convexa; rufo- 
brunnea, corpore subtus obscuriori, antennis apicem versus 
picescentibus ; his brevibus (vix ultra coxas intermedias 
attingentibus), articulo 3° quam 2" graciliori et sat longior ; 
