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in size and colour. A specimen from South Australia is 

 much paler than the typical form, its colour is a reddish- 

 brown with the head almost black, and the fascia on the 

 elytra yellow; on some the whole of the legs are ferruginous, 

 here and there infuscated. 



Tarsostenodes leucogramma, n.sp. 



Elongate; testaceous, with a spot on each elytron near 

 the scutellum, a larger one below each of these, the posterior 

 half of elytra, and parts of the legs, bluish-black or black; 

 a little behind the middle of elytra are two raised white bands 

 obliquely placed, touching the margins but not the suture, 

 midway between these and the humeral angles, near but not 

 touching the margins, two raised white maculae, and about 

 midway between the latter, near the base but not touching 

 the suture, two similar, but somewhat smaller, maculae. 

 Clothed with moderately long, semi-erect, black hairs, those 

 on the posterior part of elytra are thickly interspersed with 

 shorter and more depressed silvery ones. Under-surface 

 testaceous, with the exception of the abdomen, which is 

 black; very scantily clothed with short pale hairs. 



Head with small, closely placed, rugose punctures. 

 Antennae slender, second joint small and globular, 

 3 to 8 elongate, the eighth distinctly shorter than the pre- 

 ceding one, club three-jointed, apical joint ovate-acuminate. 

 Prothorax elongate, convex, with a shallow subapical trans- 

 verse impression, posterior margin narrower than the anterior 

 one, sides rounded near the middle; with closely placed punc- 

 tures, somewhat larger than those on head and more indi- 

 vidually distinct. Scutellum small and subtriangular. Elytra 

 distinctly wider than prothorax,- about three times as long 

 as their width at base, sides parallel to about the middle, 

 then slightly dilated, with rows of moderately large, reticulate 

 punctures, beginning at the base and ceasing abruptly at the 

 post-median white fascia, apical portion with very small, 

 almost obsolete punctures. Legs long and somewhat slender. 

 Length, 4'5-5'5 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: National Park (H. Hacker); New 

 South Wales: Illawarra (W. du Boulay). Type, in author's 

 collection; co-type, I. 15336, in South Australian Museum; 

 and co-types in Queensland Museum. 



Apparently a variable species in its colour and markings, 

 for on some the prothorax is much darker, the lateral mar- 

 gins and bas.e being almost black; two specimens have the 

 anterior part of the elytra entirely pale, with the four white 

 maculae more or less distinct; the humeral angles are either 

 black or testaceous, and the black portions of the anterior 

 part of elytra are sometimes at the margins joined to the 



