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surface are of a very bright scarlet colour ; those on the pronotum 

 are a pair in the discal fovese, a corresponding pair on the basal 

 margin and one at each of the angles — the latter inconspicuous 

 because placed on the red lateral margin ; they are small and of 

 equal sizes. The spots on the elytra are of about the same size 

 as those on the pronotum and very equal in size inter se ; there 

 are about 5 spots on the lateral margin and from 3 to 5 on each 

 of the inner three interstices. Disregarding colour and markings 

 the species differs from decoraia, Er., by inter alia the very much 

 less strongly rounded sides of its pro thorax, and from lacera, 

 Pasc, by inter alia the sides of its prothorax considerably less 

 rounded and without the slightest sinuosity of outline. It has 

 no fascicles on its surface. An abraded specimen of this insect 

 agrees so remarkably well with Pascoe's description of Peltis 

 moniliata that I can hardly doubt its being specifically identical. 

 It is decidedly a Leperina : if there should be found an insect 

 (distinct from this) which is Poscoe's moniliata the latter will no 

 doubt be found to be not a Leperina, and in that case no harm 

 will be done by the repetition of the name. 

 Victoria (Dividing Range) and Tasmania. 



PELTONYXA. 



p. invalida, sp. nov. Elongata ; postice leviter dilatata ; minus 

 convexa ; vix pubescens ; testaceo-ferruginea ; capite pro- 

 thoraceque rufescentibus, alutaceis et sparsissime obso- 

 letissime puncturis impressis ; prothorace quam longiori 

 circiter duplo latiori, antice parum angustato, lateribus 

 leviter arcuatis minus late reflexis, angulis posticis 

 rotundatis ; elytris minus fortiter seriatim punctulatis, 

 interstitiis nonnuUis latera versus obsolete prominulis. 

 Long., If 1.; lat., ^1. 



Near P. australis, Blackb., but easily distinguishable from it 

 by inter alia the less straight sides of its prothorax, and the 

 considerably smaller and much less deeply impressed punctures 

 of its elytra. Some of the interstices of the elytra near the 

 lateral margin are very slightly raised (in australis the alternate 

 interstices throughout are so) but so slightly that their elevation 

 is only to be seen from some points of view. P. p2ibescens, 

 Blackb., differs from both the above inter alia by its very much 

 more plentiful pubescence ; and P. Deyrollei, Reitter, by its 

 considerably greater size, also by the alternate interstices of its 

 elytra being elevated, a character that could not be attributed 

 even to P. australis without the qualifying word " scarcely ' 

 before " elevated," also by its elytra being striate. 



N.S. Wales (Blue Mountains). 



