508 Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1910. 



Wide as long, base sinuous and almost twice the width of apex, 

 disc strongly convex ; with dense but normally concealed punc- 

 tures. Elytra not much longer than wide, strongly convex, widest 

 near Shoulders (which are strongly rounded) ; with regulär rows 

 of rather large but partially concealed punctures ; interstices 

 wider than punctures and feebly separately convex. Length 

 2 mm. 



Hab. — W. Australia : Geraldton and Garden Island (A. M. Lea). 



The clothing varies from white to golden or ochreous but 

 is sometimes black in places. On the prothorax most of the 

 scales are white , but there is usually a distinct golden patch 

 on each side of the base , and sometimes a patch on each side 

 of the apex; there is usually a distinct median line of pale 

 scales. On the elytra the white and golden scales frequently 

 appear in feebly defined zones or irregulär spots, the white scales 

 sometimes predominating , but usually the golden ones ; there is 

 nearly always, however , a pale median fascia (the derm beneath 

 this fascia is occasionally infuscated) bounded both in front and 

 behind with golden scales, amongst which there frequently appear 

 feeble spots of darker scales. On several specimens there is a 

 distinct spot of black scales on each side of the middle of pro- 

 thorax at its apical third, and three transverse rows of spots on 

 the elytra : one about base, one slightly before, the other slightly 

 beyond the middle , with the space between the two submedian 

 rows clothed with ochreous and white scales intermingled. On 

 other specimens there are feeble spots of black scales, but it is 

 not often that they form three distinct rows. On one specimen 

 the scales on the upper surface are almost entirely white. On 

 the undersurface (where the scales have a looser appearance than 

 elsewhere), scutellum and legs, the scales are usually white, but 

 the golden ones frequently extend on to the side pieces of the 

 meso- and metasternum. The prothorax from the sides appear s 

 to be somewhat gibbous in the middle. The size is remarkably 

 uniform, as there is barely one fourth of a millimetre difference 

 between the largest and smallest of 31 specimens. 



216. Cassythicola longirostris n. sp. 



Reddish-brown , rostrum antennae and legs somewhat paler, 

 sterna and part of abdomen more or less blackish. Rather 

 densely clothed with scales varying from white through golden 

 or ochreous to brown or black. Length S^/g mm. 



Hab. — Australia (Entomological Society). 



The two specimens before me appear to be partially abraded. 

 Their sculpture is exactly as described in the preceding species, 



