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gently rounded and decreasing in width to apex ; with small 

 scattered punctures. Elytra at base very little wider than 

 prothorax, sides gently rounded ; with regular rows of rather 

 small punctures, becoming much smaller posteriorly; inter- 

 stices with very sparse punctures. Length, 3-4 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Mount Tambourine (Henry Hacker 

 and C. Wild); New South Wales: Acacia Creek (H. J. 

 Carter). Type, I. 5684. 



Of the eight specimens before me no two are exactly 

 alike ; but as two are almost alike, one of these has been 

 selected as the type ; its head is almost entirely black, with 

 the apical two-thirds of antennae blackish; the elytra have 

 the sides from the middle and the apex rather widely infus- 

 cated and with indications of a median fascia. One specimen 

 has the head, prothorax (a fairly-distinct reddish spot 

 towards each side excepted), apical two-thirds of elytra (a 

 large, somewhat irregular, completely-enclosed spot on each 

 excepted), and the legs black with a bluish gloss, the 

 antennae are black, except a few of the basal joints. Another 

 specimen is very similar, except that the legs are not so dark. 

 Two specimens have the basal portion of head blackish, apical 

 half of antennae and apical sides of elytra infuscated ; with, 

 on one of them, vague indications of remnants of a median 

 fascia. Another specimen, except for a slight infuscation of 

 the antennae, is entirely pale. The eighth specimen, except 

 for its elytra, agrees with the preceding one, but the elytra 

 are marked with ten conspicuous rounded spots : four near 

 base, four just beyond the middle, and two near apex. There 

 are small abdominal lamellae, but to see these clearly the 

 legs must be pushed aside. 



OoMELA TRIMACULATA, 11. sp. 



Bright, reddish-castaneous, about three-fourths of anten- 

 nae deeply infuscated, elytra with three conspicuous black 

 spots : one, common to both, touching the scutellum, and a 

 large obliquely oval one on each side beyond the middle. 



Head scarcely visibly punctate. Prothorax at base fully 

 four times as wide as long ; with sparse and very minute 

 punctures. Elytra with sides rather strongly rounded and 

 widest at basal third ; with rows of minute and rather distant 

 punctures, the interstices impunctate or almost so. Length, 

 2J-2A mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district (Blackburn's Collec- 

 tion and A. M. Lea). Type, I. 3396. 



Two specimens have elytral markings practically identical, 

 but on a third they are reduced to infuscate stains and 



