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Further Notes on Australian Coleoptera, 

 ^wiTH Descriptions of Nkm^ Species. 



By the Rev. T. Blackburx, B.A. 



[Read October 2nd, 1888.] 



The following paper embodies the results of some studies I 

 have recently made among the Fhytojyhaga of the sub-tribe 

 Galerucidoi, and among the Coccinellidce of the group called by 

 M. Mulsant " Trichosomides." 



GALERUCID^. 



Up to the present time, so far as I can ascertain, only one spe- 

 cies of this sub-tribe has been actually recorded as occurring in 

 the colony of South Australia (outside the Northern Territory), 

 and that species (^Monolepta croceicollis, Germ.) I do not think 

 that I have seen. A second species (Ullojna jjedestris, Er.) is 

 attributed by Mr. Masters in general terms to "Australia and 

 Tasmania," by which I suppose it is intended to imply that its 

 range is a wide one. I have frequently met with it as far west 

 as the Port Lincoln district, where in some localities it is rather 

 plentiful. In the following pages I describe seven new species 

 irom South Australia proper, two from the Northern Territory, 

 five from Western Australia, and one from New South Wales. I 

 have been compelled to supply a new generic name for one of the 

 South Australian species. The Gcderucidce appear to be much 

 more plentiful in the northern than in the southern parts of the 

 continent. 



AGELASTICA. 



Although widely different in colours and markings from any 

 other Agelastici known to me, the following insect does not ap- 

 pear to display structural characters that call for generic distinc- 

 tion. It has the anterior coxal cavities open behind, the prolonged 

 epipleurse, the appendiculated claws, the basal joint of the hind 

 tibiae not longer than the following two joints together, the muc- 

 ronated tibiiie, &c., as in Agelastica ; the antennae, however, are 

 more slender and the prothorax less transverse than is usual in 

 the genus. 



xi. lineata, sp. nov. Oblonga ; supra livida, capite nigro-maculato, 

 prothorace elytrisque lineatim nigro-notatis ; subtus nigro- 

 prosterno palpis et pedibus (femoribus 



