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Hab. — Queensland: Wide Bay. Type, in Macleay 

 Museum; co-type, I. 6006, in South Australian Museum. 



There are four specimens before me, and the strikingly 

 distinctive disposition of their pubescence renders it certain 

 that they belong to but one species, despite the variation in 

 colour. Two specimens (regarded as of the typical form) 

 have the upper-surface black, except for a large basal portion 

 of the elytra (infuscated, however, on each side of the suture) 

 narrowly continued along the suture to the apex, and a curved 

 fascia from each side obliquely joining in with the sutural 

 portion ; these parts are clothed with golden pubescence, on 

 the basal half somewhat resembling a V (the pubescence 

 here being much as on the preceding species); on its apical 

 portion the middle half of the pubescence also resembles a 

 V, but the tops of the V are abruptly deflected to the sides 

 (the pubescence here being very different in disposition to 

 that on the preceding species). From some directions the 

 elytra appear to have a trilobed basal black or infuscate mark 

 (common to both), and each with a large suboblong median 

 blotch and a smaller subapical one, parts of the sterna are 

 infuscated, but the rest of the under-surface and the append- 

 ages (except that the hind tibiae and three basal joints of 

 hind tarsi are tipped with black) are flavous. In general 

 appearance these specimens, at first glance, are apparently 

 close to hwneralis, but the abdomen and pygidium are 

 different and the elytral markings are really very different. 

 The other two specimens have the head and prothorax entirely 

 flavous, and the only conspicuously dark parts of the elytra 

 are two apical elliptic spots ; the other markings of the typical 

 form are vaguely indicated, but the golden pubescence is 

 exactly the same. The appendages of all the specimens are 

 somewhat clogged with gum, which I was unable to entirely 

 remove, but they are apparently much as on the preceding 

 species. 



MORDELLA SERICANS, n. Sp. 



Black ; parts of front legs and base of antennae obscurely 

 reddish. Densely clothed with uniformly sericeous greyish 

 pubescence, on some specimens with a purplish gloss on sides 

 of elytra. 



Moderately elongate. Scutellum small and semicircular. 

 Pygidium short and conspicuously truncated. Antennae 

 rather short, fifth to tenth joints obtusely subtriangular. 

 Spurs to hind tibiae unequal. Length, 5-7-| mm. 



Hab. — South Australia: Tintinara, Ardrossan (J. G. O. 

 Tepper), Quorn (Blackburn's collection). Type, I. 5880. 



A moderately large species with uniform pubescence even 

 on the abdomen, but on elytra sometimes darker on the sides, 



