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nigrum vel piceo-nigrum ; capite prothoraceque subtiliter sat 

 crebre, elytris multo fortius minus crebre, punctulatis. 

 Long., -j^L; lat, -,%\. (vix). 

 The head is wide, and flat between the eyes. Viewed from 

 above the insect has quite the appearance of a Chilocorus. The 

 prothorax is considerably longer down the middle than at the' 

 margins ; across the base its width is more than twice its length 

 do\sTi the middle; the front margin is strongly sinuous behind the 

 eyes ; the sides are widely, though very slightly, reflexed ; the 

 front angles are rounded, the hind angles obtuse. On the under 

 side the meso-and meta-sterna are very finely and obscurely, and 

 the ventral segments finely, closely, and strongly, punctured. The- 

 lamellae under a powerful Coddington lens appear punctureless. 

 Two specimens occurred to me near Port Lincoln. 



