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antennae half the length of the body. Thorax finely punctured. 

 Elytra distinctly punctate-striate on the inner disc, the outer disc 

 irregularly punctured, each elytron with five large yellow patches, 

 the first four ovate, placed in two parallel rows, one just below 

 the base, the other scarcely below the middle ; the fifth patch is 

 transverse and subapical. 



Genus Australica, Chevr. 

 1. Justralica Waterhousn. 

 Elongata, angustata, parallela, convexa, fusco-aenea, nitida ; 

 dorso fortiter et crebre punctato ; thorace elytrorum latitudine 

 vel latiori; elytris obsolete vittatis ; pedibus antennarumque 

 basibus obscure fulvis. 

 Long. 3 — 3\ lin. 



Hab. Interior of Australia. Collected by Mr. F. G. Waterhouse. 

 Whole upper surface of the body closely covered with deep 

 punctures, which sparkle with metallic lustre. Head short, 

 closely punctured ; antennae slender, their apex fuscous. Tho- 

 rax equal in breadth to the elytra, or even slightly broader, its 

 sides nearly straight and parallel behind, rounded and narrowed 

 towards the apex. Elytra parallel, in some specimens indistinctly 

 narrowed, posteriorly, their apex regularly rounded ; surface 

 deeply punctured, subrugose towards the sides ; each elytron with 

 about five or six indistinct, scarcely elevated vittae, viz. four or 

 five on the inner and one on the outer disc ; the vitta nearest 

 the suture is smooth and impunctate, and therefore more distinct 

 than the others. 



I have dedicated this new species of Australica to Mr. F. G. 

 Waterhouse of Adelaide, who collected it during his recent expe- 

 dition across the continent of Australia. 



2. Australica inlerrupto-fasciata. 

 Ob.onga, convexa, nitido-lactea; capite thoracisque maculis 

 pallide rufo-fuscis, antennis extrorsum fuscis, elytris punctato- 

 striatis, utrisque puncto humerali fasciisque duabus interruptis, 

 extrorsum abbreviatis, piceis. 

 Long. 2^ lin. 

 Hab. Northern Australia. 



Oblong, convex, of a pale shining cream colour ; the head, 

 together with some obscure markings on the disc of the thorax, 

 pale rufo-fuscous ; outer half of antennae fuscous; elytra each with 

 ten rows of deep fuscous punctures, a small spot on the humeral 

 callus, together with two interrupted transverse bands on the disc, 

 piceous. Head very finely and irregularly punctured, face sepa- 



