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.-scutellum, and in the claws. Tliese latter are unusually small, 

 .and so bent under the last joint of tlie tarsi that I found them 

 ^exceedingly difficult to examine. T think, however, that they 

 are certainly appendiculate, with the inner apex of the basal 

 piece somewhat produced, while in EnjKilea they are said to be 

 bifid, with the inner division short and basal. As this may be a 

 different way of describing the same character, I do not like to 

 found a genus on it. Nevertheless, the present insect is so much 

 smaller and so differently coloured from the Soutli American 

 species, that it can only be provisionally associated with them. 

 The intermediate and (especially) the hind cox?e are unusually 

 widely separated — a character not mentioned as pertaining to 

 Eupalea. The first ventral suture is as strongly marked as the 

 others. 



E. (?) rotunda^ sp. nov. Sub-hemisph?ericus ; convexus ; sat 

 nitidus ; pubescens ; laete brunneus ; prothoracis disco, 

 metasterno abdomine medio, et tarsis, plus minus picescenti- 

 bus ; capite prothoraceque subtiliter, elytris minus subtiliter, 

 sat crebre punctulatis. Long., 1 1.; lat., ^1. 

 The almost circular outline and clear, bright brown colour 

 (with only the disc of the prothorax infuscate) of the upper sur- 

 face of this insect render it at a glance very different from any 

 other Australian Coccinellid known to me. For the sake of 

 •comparing its puncturation with that of a common species, I 

 may say that its elytra are punctured a little, but not much, 

 more finely than those of Wtizobius centralis, Er. In one of my 

 two examples the suture of the elytra is a little infuscate. 

 Port Lincoln. 



NOVIUS. 



JSf. Lindi, sp. nov. Breviter ovalis ; minus convexus ; nitidusj 

 pubescens ; niger ; elytris macula rufa instructis ; antennis, 

 palpis, tibiis apice, et tarsis, ruf opiceis ; capite prothoraceque 

 vix per^icue, elytris crebre subtilius, punctulatis. Long., 

 1 1. ; lat., ± 1. 



Each elytron bears a w^ell-defined oblong bright red spot, the 

 hinder end of which reaches about the middle of the length of 

 the elytron, and which is placed near to the suture. The head is 

 wide ; the eyes are large and finely granulated, their inner mar- 

 .gins parallel. The prothorax is rather more than twice as wide 

 .as long down the middle, its front bisinuate, the middle being 

 produced forward, its anterior angles little produced and narrowly 

 rounded off, its sides gently arched and narrowed towards the 

 base (with which they form a very obtuse angle) the latter being 

 strongly arched backward all across and fitting into a deep com- 

 mon emargination of the elytra. The scutellum is triangular and 



