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Mordella leucosticta, Germ. 

 PI. xiv., fig. 79. 

 A specimen (from Sydney, in the Macleay Museum) 

 appears (to the naked eye) to have all the elytral markings 

 connected ; on each elytron the curved basal spot has a 

 narrow line connecting it with the posthumeral spot, and the 

 latter is very close to it but does not quite touch the median 

 spot; the median spot is irregularly continued to join in 

 with the subapical fascia; the suture narrowly dividing these 

 markings. 



Mordella limbata, Waterh. 



I have seen several specimens that might have been 

 referred to this species, to bella, or to promiscua, but the 

 typical form of the species is quite distinct from either of 

 the latter. Two specimens (from King George Sound, in the 

 Macleay Museum) have the elytra, except about the tips and 

 the sides near the tips, at first glance apparently uniformly 

 clothed with golden-brown pubescence ; but on examining 

 them closely a paler median zigzaz fascia becomes visible, 

 and there is also a wide pale subapical spot ; examining the 

 elytra from behind the whole pubescence appears blackish. 



Mordella multi guttata, Waterh. 

 PI. xiv., fig. 80. 

 A specimen (from Wide Bay, in the Australian Museum) 

 has the second and third elytral spots (counting from the 

 base) of ordinary specimens conjoined to form an oblique 

 vitta; on the two elytra the markings form an irregular V, 

 but are lightly separated by the suture. 



Mordella nigrans, Macl. 

 PI. xiv., figs. 81, 82. 



Two specimens on a card were standing above this name 

 with a type label in the Macleay Museum, but they belong 

 to two distinct species. They were both gummy, so that the 

 pubescence was partially obscured. Macleay described the 

 elytra as "without distinct mark, but showing in some lights 

 a very faint oblique longitudinal vitta" ; the only specimen 

 so marked on being soaked for some time in water and cleaned 

 with chloroform is seen to have a rather short white oblique 

 spot in the middle of each elytron (it completely disappears, 

 however, when the elytra are viewed from behind) ; the 

 suture also and the base of the pronotum are narrowly marked 

 with whitish pubescence, and there are white spots at the 

 sides of the abdomen ; the spurs of the hind tibiae are reddish 

 and unequal, the longer one being twice the length of the 



