1474 FTBTHEB NOTES ON AUSTBALIAN COLEOPTEEA, 
elytra as its base, and its apex on the suture a little behind the 
middle, a narrow edging to the hind part of the suture, and (on 
either side) a blotch of similar shape and size to that already 
mentioned, having as its base the hinder two-thirds of the lateral 
mar gin, and its apex falling on the suture a little behind the 
middle. Thus if the dark colouring be regarded as the ground 
tint of the elytra, there would appear to be on each elytron a 
broad subparallel red stripe running from the lateral margin 
(immediately behind the base) obliquely almost to the suture, and 
a red spot on the inner apical extremity not quite touching the 
suture. 
The undersurface is thinly clothed with short silvery hairs. 
27. Territory of S. Australia ; taken by Mr. J. P. Tepper. 
Apobocera. 
The following species agrees sufficiently well with the description 
of A. apicaU-8, .Saund., (from X. S. Wales), to prevent my giving it 
a new name. It appears to differ chiefly in the colour of the 
ventral segments (which in some examples is almost wholly red), 
in the elytra being narrowly margined in front with black, and in 
the scutellum not being margined with black. 
A. APiCALis, Saund., var. (?) 
Elongato-quadrata ; rufa ; antennis (late compressis, corpore 
b^e^■ioribus), elytrorum basi anguste et apice late, pygidio apice, 
metasterno, abdomine (vel toto vel in parte), femorum et tibiarum 
apice, tarsisque, nigricantibus ; capite prothoraceque crassissime 
aoervatim, elytris profunde seriatim sat crebre, punctulatis. 
[Long. 3, lat. Ig lines. 
The punctures on the head and prothorax are extremely large 
and deep ; they are placed on the anterior part of the former, and 
on the latter are almost confined to the oblique depressions usual 
in this genus, which run from near the front of the lateral 
margins to near the middle of the base. The dark apical cloud 
on the elytra occupies nearly the posterior quarter of those 
