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metasternum at its sides and ventral segments are rather strongly 

 punctured, the former much more closely than the latter. The 

 middle of the metasternum is obscurely punctulate. There are 

 only five ventral segments. The l^asal ventral suture is nearly 

 obliterated in the middle. 



Sedan, S.A. ; taken by Mr. B. S. Rothe. 



CC. Lamella? abdominales integrse. 



*S'. 7;ara//e/?*5, sp. no v. Oblongus ; subparallelus ; minus convexus ; 

 nitidus; pubescens ; piceus vel f errugineo-piceus ; tibiis, 

 tarsorum basi, et elytris singulis vitta lata, testaceis ; capite 

 subtiliter obscure, prothorace vix perspicue, elytris crassius 

 subrugulose, punctulatis. Long., ^1.; lat., f 1. 

 Not very like Scymnus in general apperance, owing to its more 

 elongate flattened form and not very finely granulated eyes ; it 

 is, moreover, the only Australian species (known to me) attribu- 

 table to the genus in which the abdominal lamellae are entire, but 

 I cannot find any satisfactory character for separating it. The 

 upper surface is of a shining pitchy colour, inclining to ferruginous 

 about the sides of the elytra, each of which bears a %vide and 

 rather obscure testaceous vitta commencing about the middle of 

 the front margin, running down the disc to near the apex, and 

 then turning towards and meeting the suture ; the inner margin 

 of this ^-itta is better defined than the outer, so that the two vittse 

 (meeting near the apex) enclose an elongate common space of a 

 deep piceous colour, and externally merge by gradual shades of 

 colour into the general hue. In one of my two examples nearly 

 the whole under surface is reddish, including the femora ; in the 

 other it is pitchy, with the apical segments reddish. The pro- 

 thorax is scarcely twice as wide as long, its front scarcely emar- 

 ginate, the front angles but little produced and not sharp, the 

 hind sharply rectangular, the base not much wider than the front, 

 the sides nearly straight. The abdominal lamellae nearly reach 

 the apex of the basal ventral segment, and are very narrow, their 

 external margin being on the front of the segment, nearly as far 

 from the lateral margin of the segment as the whole width of the 

 lamella along the front margin. The first ventral suture, though 

 perfectly distinct, is evidently feebler in the middle than the other 

 sutures. In one example there is a distinct, in the other a 

 scarcely distinct, small sixth ventral segment. The infuscation 

 of the claw joint of the tarsi is (if invariable) a conspicuous 

 character. The epipleur^e are more or less testaceous. 

 Port Lincoln. 



EHIZOBIUS. 



A. Prosternum medio longitudinaliter depressum, spatio depresso 

 utrinque longitudinaliter carinato. 



