COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 639 



La Billardiere, New South Wales cannot be intended, for his only Australian port of 

 call was Hobart ; the probability is that it was somewhere north or north-west of New 

 Guinea. The species appears to have a tolerably wide distribution, specimens from the 

 Moluccas (Gilolo), A.ru Is., Damma I., Fergusson I., and Alu, Shortland I., Solomon 

 Group, in addition to New Guinea, being contained in the British Museum Collection. 



MOKDELLA SERTCEOBRUNNEA . 

 Mordella sericeobrunnea Blair, Abstract P. Z, S. 1914, p. 19 (March 24). 

 Grandis, elongata, brunnea, parum iridescens, omnino setulis fulvis sericeis induta ; capite post 

 ocuios expauso, augulis fere rectis, palpis bruuneis, articulo ultimo triangulariter elongate ; 

 antennis gracilibus, prothoracis medium baud superautibus, articubs 4-10 intus serratis vix 

 transversis; prothorace valde transverso, quam elytris latiore, antice et postice in medio 

 valde lobato, inter lobos elevato, lateribus leviter arcuatis ; scutello elongato, triaugulare, 

 apice rotuudato ; elytris elongatis, transverse subtiliter rugulosis, sutura marginata, humeris 

 obtuse elevatis ; abdominis apice acute sat breve prodacto, tarsis posterioribus compressis. 

 Long. 15 mm., lat. 4J mm. 



Utakwa Eiver ; 1. {Type of the species.) 



Distinguished by its large size and uniform brown colour with faint iridescent hues ; 

 the median lobes of the thorax both in front and behind are well developed, and the 

 area between them strongly elevated and rounded. The caudal process is shorter and 

 stouter than in most species of the genus. The only species in the British Museum 

 Collection at all closely approaching it is one, apparently undescribed, from Brazil, but 

 this differs in the broader terminal joint of the palpi, in its elytra being simply and 

 finely punctulate, and in the less compressed posterior tarsi. 



EHIPIPHOEIDja. 



Pelecotomoides mukina. 



Pelecotomoides murina Blanch. Voy. Pole Sua, iv. 1853, p. 187, pi. xii. fig. 13. 



Utakwa River; 1. 



The single specimen agrees fairly well with the figure and description cited, but is 

 rather larger (10 mm.) and the limbs and mouth-parts are not markedly red. The 

 strong basal border to the thorax indicated in the figure is presumably incorrect. 



Meloid .E. 

 CiSSITES MAXILLOSA. 

 Horia maxillosa Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. ii. 1801, p. 86. 



Mimika River ; 1 d . 



This is the species usually known in collections as C. ceplialotes Oliv. It is widely 

 distributed in the Oriental Region, and is represented in the British Museum Collection 



