94 Records of the S.A. Museum 



//(//'. Wc-sK-rn Australia: Warren Rixcr ( W. 1). nmldi. Swan Ri\cr and 

 Karridalc (A. Al. Lea). Tv])u. I.<;3i3. 



Allied to (). iiaiia, liut pale elytral fascia not elexated, and punctuies of 

 jM'onutinn round inslea<l of lontjilndinal. The type is l.ilack and subopacpie. but 

 with a hi,t,d)lv-polished si)ace on the eK'tra before the middle, across the middle 

 itself there is a fairh' wide whitish fascia, touching the ^ides, but narrciwly 

 interrupted at the suture; the legs and the basal joint of the antennae are of a 

 dingy brown, the rest of the antennae and the tarsi somewhat paler. A second 

 specimen dilifers from the type only by ha\ing the median fascia not (|uite touch- 

 ing the sides, and with the sutural interruption more pronounced. A third 

 specimen is of a rather j)ale castaneous, the polished space before the fascia is 

 brownish, an oblique mark on each elytron, bounding the ])osterior edge of the 

 pale fascia in \el\ety-black. and between these marks the surface is of the same 

 colour as the base, the apical third is deeply infuscated, the metasternum, abdomen 

 and parts of the legs are more lightly infuscated. A fourth specimen is like the 

 third, except that the base of the elytra is paler than the pirothorax, and that the 

 under-surface is scarcely infuscated. 



HOMOEMOTA TRICOLOR sp. nov. 



Bright reddish-castaneous, scutellum somewhat darker ; elytra with a con- 

 spicuous narro\\- |iale rexersed \', beyond this and the abdomen black, with a 

 vague bluish or pnri)lisli gloss. With very short depressed pubescence, absent, 

 except posteriorly, from elytra ; a few short setae scattered aliout on upper- 

 surface, and fairly dense on tibiae, basal half of antennae with some moderately 

 long ones. 



I lead with small, dense, asijerate punctures; face gently concaxe. h'.yes 

 deeply notched, upper portion thin. Antennae long and thin, considerably passing 

 elytra, third joint almost twice the length of hrst, and much longer than fourth, 

 hfth sliglith longer than fourth, the others gradually decreasing in length. 

 Prothoia.Y distinctly longer than wide, sides gently and evenly rounded, base 

 slightl\ narrower than apex ; surface shagreened antl with dense but rather 

 shallow punctures. F.lytra rather flat and thin, slightly wider than widest part 

 of prothorax, almost parallel-sided to near apex ; with coarse, crowded punc- 

 tures, becoming sparser some little distance beyond the re\ei-sed \ , ami then 

 much smaller Init crowded about the apex. Lr(/s long and thin ; femora 

 (especially the four hind ones) .strongly pedunculate, hind pair passing elytra for 

 more than half of the thickened portion; hintl tibiae slightly curved. Length, 

 6-3-10 nun. 



JIab. New South Wales: Dorrigo ill. j. Carter and W. Heron), Wollon- 

 gong (A. M. Leaj. Type, 1.93(5. 



