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Head with dense but not sharply defined punctures. 

 Prothorax about twice as wide as the median length, sides 

 strongly rounded; with small and very dense punctures, and 

 several very shallow depressions. Elytra (for the genus) 

 rather elongate, almost parallel-sided to near apex; punctures 

 AS on prothorax; striae distinct only on sides, rather feeble 

 at ape^ and near suture, scarcely traceable elsswhere. 

 Length, 3-4 mm. 



9 . Differs in being larger and in the usual particulars 

 of eyes, legs, and abdomen. 



If ah. — Australia (old collection); New South Wales 

 (Blackburn's collection), Cobar (H. J. Carter, from 

 Shaw). Type, I. 10886. 



Narrower than any previously described species of the 

 genus, elytra multimaculate and prothorax with conspicuous 

 longitudinal markings. The scutellar lobe is not notched, 

 and this would exclude it from the genus by the table given 

 by Chapuis; there are, however, two closely allied undescribed 

 species that have the scutellar lobe slightly notched, but as 

 I have seen but a single female of each they have not been 

 named. The scutellum itself is very small, but is distinctly 

 transverse, another unusual feature in the genus. The 

 markings are not exactly the same on any two of the four 

 specimens (one male and three females) before me : the head 

 in all is obscurely blotched, except in front; the prothorax 

 has two complete longitudinal vittae, three specimens have 

 remnants of another towards each side, and two of these also 

 have a short medio-apical vitta ; on the elytra the spots and 

 markings are very irregular and often angularly connected 

 together, but on one female many spots are isolated; on the 

 male most of the under-surface is black, and parts of the 

 femora are inf uscated ; on the females the abdomen and legs 

 are entirely pale; on one female the dark parts of the under- 

 surface consist solely of a spot on each side of the metasternum. 

 The punctures on the head are partly obscured by the clothing, 

 but even where this has been abraded they are not very 

 sharply defined, although the surface could hardly be regarded 

 as shagreened. From above the front angles of the prothorax 

 appear to be widely rounded off, but they are really rect- 

 angular, similarly the hind angles appear to be less, but are 

 really more than right angles. 



Elaphodes coccinellotdes, n. sp. 

 9 • Black and red. Moderately clothed with white 

 pubescence, somewhat longer on upper than on under- 

 surface. 



