424 On new Goleoptera from Queensland. 



This species is at once separated from B. gulosa, Newm., 

 by the thorax being almost devoid of punctures, and with no 

 sharp angle at the side ; besides the two discoidal spots, the 

 posterior angles below, and sometimes the hind margin, are 

 black. The elytra are rather dull, coarsely punctured, tricos- 

 tate, with a large yellow spot below the scutellum, and one on 

 each lateral margin about the middle, as in B. gulosa. The 

 sternum and the base of the abdomen are sometimes yel- 

 lowish. 



Hah. Sydney. Brit. Mus. 



Brachytria jpicta^ sp. n. 



B. nigra, nitida ; capito thoraceque margine antico ochraceis, hoc fere 

 laevi, medio haud ampliato, postice angustato ; elytris postice 

 angustatis, tricostatis, crebre punctatis, medio paUide flavo-nota- 

 tis, humeris sanguineis, apice fumoso ; femoribus apice ochraceo- 

 annulatis ; abdomine basi piceo. 



Long. 6^ lin. 



The colours of this species would probably vary ; but the fol- 

 lowing characters will serve to distinguish it from B. varia : — 

 Eyes scarcely prominent. Thorax regularly arched, with no 

 impressions towards the anterior and posterior angles, scarcely 

 .broader across the middle than in front, narrowed behind, 

 but not angular at the sides. The punctuation of the elytra 

 is much the same ; but the punctures are not so confluent at 

 the apex. The metasternum is very closely and somewhat 

 coarsely punctured in the middle, less closely but distinctly 

 punctured at the sides ; whereas in B. varia the metasternum 

 is finely punctured, and not much more closely in the middle 

 than at the sides. 



Hah. Queensland. Brit. Mus. 



Ohrida comata^ Pascoe. 



Specimens of this species have just been received from 

 Queensland, some with entirely black legs and antennas, others 

 with them entirely red. 



Phytophaga. 

 Cassididse. 



Hoplionota dorsalis, sp, n. 



H. breviter oblonga, subnitida, fiava ; thorace dorso piceo, utrinque 

 plagis duabus punctatis, lateribus flavis profunde haud crebre 

 punctatis ; scutello nigro ; elytris disco piceo, crebre fortiter 

 punctato, elcvationibus nitidis instructo, margiuibiis piceis macu- 



