540 Mr. Francis P. Pascoe's Notes on 



which are mottled with ashy and yellowish, and spotted with 

 brown ; head with a narrow, impressed line on the vertex ; 

 antennae from the third to the seventh joints inclusive with the 

 basal half white ; prothorax somewhat irregular, with a few im- 

 pressed points ; scutellum rounded posteriorly ; elytra nearly 

 parallel, each with two prominent costas, which are marked at 

 intervals by coarse tubercles, the base with a very few punctures, 

 and scarcely any tubercles ; body beneath and legs covered with 

 a pure white pile, speckled with ferruginous. 



Length 6 lines. 



One of my specimens of this species is nearly glabrous, and the 

 colour appears to vary. It is a well marked species. 



4. Penthea scenica. 



P. dense pubescens, rubra, albo-plagiata, et nigro-maculata ; 



prothorace baud rugoso, latere tuberculis duobus elongatis 



instructo ; elytris sub-costatis. 

 Port Denison. 



Covered with a close-set, brick-red pile, varied with large white 

 patches and spotted with black ; head with an impressed line on 

 the vertex ; antennae with the first two joints white, the rest black, 

 with the apex and base of each only white, except the last, which 

 is black at the apex ; prothorax not rugose, two prominent 

 tubercles at the side, one above the other, and one or two smaller 

 ones behind them ; scutellum transverse, rounded behind ; elytra 

 nearly parallel, two scarcely projecting costae on each ; the white 

 patches are disposed thus — three common to both elytra, one 

 scutellar, one behind this near the centre, the third towards the 

 apex, and two proper to each, both at the side, but the posterior 

 largest and extending obliquely upwards ; the black spots are 

 round, numerous and well defined, and besides these are many 

 minute punctures in the substance of the elytra ; body beneath 

 and legs covered with a pale yellowish pile, mottled with fulvous. 



Length 7 lines. 



In colour this species slightly approaches Penthea pardalis, 

 Newm., but is in all respects so very distinct as not to require a 

 comparison. 



5. Penthea miliaris, 



P. angustior, dense pubescens, ochracea, nigro-maculata ; pro- 



