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extend to the sides), or it may be represented by a semi- 

 circular spot, or even by a narrow spot immediately behind 

 the scutellum; the metasternum may be as dark as the 

 mesosternum, but is usually pale; the abdomen is sometimes 

 infuscated; the pygidium may be partly or entirely infuscated, 

 or entirely pale. On the middle of the pronotum there are 

 three very ill-defined dark spots (from some directions having 

 a vague bluish iridescence) that are more distinct from the 

 sides than from above. 



MORDELLA CALODEMA, n. sp. 

 PI. xv., fig. 116. 



Flavous; some parts black or infuscated. Pubescence 

 more or less golden on the pale parts, dark elsewhere. 



Moderately elongate. Scutellum small and semi-circular. 

 Pygidium moderately long and somewhat obtusely pointed. 

 Antennae and spurs to hind tibiae much as in preceding 

 species. Length, 3J-3| mm. 



#«&.— -New South Wales: Sydney (H. J. Carter), Blue 

 Mountains (Dr. E. W. Furguson). Type, I. 6005. 



The type is mostly flavous ; its elytra have a large blackish 

 spot at the base, subtriangularly continued along the suture, 

 across the middle there is a very irregular dark fascia, 

 appearing somewhat like an elongate spot on each elytron 

 irregularly conjoined at the suture, and the apical fourth is 

 also dark; between the dark markings the pubescence is con- 

 spicuously golden, that between the basal mark and median 

 fascia appearing somewhat V-shaped, that behind the median 

 fascia being straight on its hind edge, but produced into 

 four points in front (hence causing the fascia to appear 

 trilobed) ; the mesosternum and metasternum are deeply 

 infuscated; the hind femora, parts of abdomen and of 

 pygidium less, and the antennae scarcely infuscated ; the hind 

 tibiae and three basal joints of the hind tarsi are tipped with 

 black. The specimen from the Blue Mountains has the elytral 

 pubescence exactly as on the type, but the i sal mark is 

 united along the suture with the median fascia, and this is 

 continued as a solid black patch to the apex, although 

 relieved by the pale pubescence ; its abdomen also is almost 

 as dark as the sterna. 



MORDELLA BLANDA, n. Sp. 



PI. xv., fig. 117. 



Flavous and black (or infuscated). Pubescence partly 

 golden and partly black. 



Rather short and compact. Scutellum small and semi- 

 circular. Pygidium moderately long and acute. Length, 

 3-3^ mm. 



