247 



pronotum, and the middle of its derm often has a large 

 blackish blotch. The species occurs in New South Wales, 

 Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. 



Elaphodes aeneolus, Chp. 



On the male of this species the prothorax is sometimes 

 dark, except for very narrow pale margins, and the elytra 

 are often dark, except that the sides and apex are flavous. 

 On the female the metasternum is black and the abdomen 

 flavous; on the male the black extends to about the middle 

 of the abdomen ; the male also has more of the head black 

 than the female. The pubescence is of a beautiful golden- 

 yellow, mixed with semi-upright hairs. 



Elaphodes murinus, Chp. 



Described as from Rockhampton in Queensland ; the only 

 specimens I have seen of it are from New South Wales and 

 Victoria. It is a large species, distinct by the entirely black 

 derm of its prothorax and elytra. 



Elaphodes scutellaris, Chp. 



Four females, measuring 2-3 mm. in length, from New 

 South Wales and Victoria, may belong to this species; no 

 two are exactly alike in colour, but they all have the 

 metasternum black, and the apical half of the antennae dark 

 (the description implies that the antennae are entirely pale). 

 One agrees well with the description, except for the partly 

 dark antennae, and that the base of the abdomen is infus- 

 cated, another is very similar except that the discal blotch 

 of the pronotum is very ill-defined, and that the abdomen 

 is entirely pale; these both have very ill-defined elytral 

 markings in addition to the circum-scutellar one ; two smaller 

 specimens have no discal markings on the prothorax, and 

 the elytral markings are very faint. 



A male (2'25 mm.) from Sydney, possibly belongs to the 

 species, but has the prothorax almost entirely infuscated, 

 and the elytra dark except for four flavous spots on each : a 

 rather large subapical one and three submedian ones placed 

 as if to mark the corners of an equilateral triangle ; the 

 middle of its prosternum and base of abdomen, as well as the 

 metasternum, are blackish. A male of similar size, from 

 Victoria, has the prothorax similarly coloured, and more of 

 the under-surface dark; but it has a large and very con- 

 spicuous flavous spot on each elytron, the spot fully one-third 

 its length and occupying almost its entire width (the two 

 narrowly touching at the suture) ; on one of the smaller 



