300 



joint no longer than tenth, and semidouble. Prothorax 

 slightly longer than wide, widest at about apical third, thence 

 rather strongly narrowed to base, which has an upturned 

 edge, and is distinctly incurved to middle; with a vague 

 depression towards each side in front; punctures somewhat 

 as on head. Elytra distinctly wider than prothorax, each with 

 four lightly-raised discal costae; with dense and small sub- 

 asperate punctures. Length ( tf , 9)> 10-16 mm. 



9 . Differs in being wider, tip of abdomen evenly 

 rounded instead of lightly notched, and legs and antennae 

 somewhat shorter. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Sydney (H. J. Carter and 

 A. M. Lea), Eden (Carter), Wollongong (Lea); Victoria: 

 Flinders (Carter), Gippsland (W. Kershaw), Inverlock (J. 

 Searle) ; Tasmania: Georgetown (Carter), Ulverstone (Lea); 

 South Australia: Robe (B. A. Feuerheerdt). Type, I. 6743. 



Common on sea-beaches, just above high-water mark, 

 at night. Allied to puncta and macleayi, but prothorax with 

 consistently very different markings ; the black portion (except 

 on a few specimens when it is not quite solid) being in one 

 piece, not in two as in puncta, or in three as in macleayi. 

 There is generally a dark spot close to each eye on the under- 

 surface of the head, and a transverse blackish stripe in front 

 of the front coxae, the knees, tarsi, and tips of tibiae (the 

 greater portion of the front ones) are usually blackish. The 

 blotch on the pronotum sometimes extends completely across 

 the apex, but often has a sinuate outline there; its posterior 

 edge usually has a bilobed median portion extended beyond 

 the lateral parts ; but on many specimens it has small irregular 

 flavous spots; on an occasional specimen it almost entirely 

 covers the pronotum ; the suture is often narrowly paler 

 than the rest of the elytra, and on some specimens there is 

 an obscurely diluted vitta extending almost the whole length 

 of each elytron near the suture. On one specimen from 

 Sydney there is a wide pale sutural space from the base to 

 near the apex, but with a short dark vitta close to the suture 

 on each side of the base ; another specimen from Sydney 

 (in Mr. Carter's collection) has the elytra pale, except for a 

 narrow vitta extending from each shoulder to the apex (where 

 the two are conjoined), its prothoracic blotch is in two parts 

 (narrowly connected posteriorly), and five of the terminal 

 joints of its antennae are pale; the clothing of its suture also 

 appears conspicuously paler than that on the adjacent parts. 



COPIDITA FTJSCICOLLIS, n. sp. 



d . Flavous, elytra (except for part of suture), knees, 

 tibiae, and tarsi black or blackish, antennae (two basal joints 



