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dense punctures about base and small elsewhere. Elytra 

 very little wider than prothorax, post-humeral incurvature 

 feeble, sides feebly decreasing in width to apex, suture nar- 

 rowly elevated posteriorly and bimucronate at apex; with 

 somewhat irregular rows of small punctures ; the interstices 

 with smaller scattered ones. Pygidium obtusely pointed in 

 middle, rather densely concentrically strigose. Mesosternal 

 process produced to between front coxae, apex somewhat 

 depressed, sides gently incurved. Abdomen with a wide and 

 rather shallow median depression. Front tibiae- rather 

 strongly tridentate, subbasal tooth the smallest, hind ones 

 acutely dentate in middle, the middle pair unarmed in 

 middle. Length ( d , 9 )> 25-31 mm. 



9 . Differs in being stouter and somewhat wider, 

 pygidium more transverse, abdomen evenly convex and legs 

 shorter, with the front tibiae more strongly tridentate, and 

 the middle pair as well as the hind ones armed in the middle. 



Hab. — North-West Australia. Fortescue River, near 

 Hammersley Range (Walter D. Dodd). Type, I. 1495, in 

 South Australian Museum. 



Very distinct from all previously described species. In 

 its spotted elytra it apparently resembles subfoveata, but 

 that species is described as having the head and scutellum 

 black, and prothorax with a single narrow fascia. The pro- 

 thoracic vittae are sometimes feebly interrupted in the middle, 

 and may extend to the base or may not touch it. There are 

 generally two infuscate spots on the clypeus, and there is 

 occasionally one on the pygidium. 



PCECILOPHARIS EMILIA, White. 



This species was described originally as from the New 

 Hebrides and as a Schizorrliina, but it seems to be fairly 

 common about Cairns and elsewhere in Northern Queensland. 



The markings on the elytra are subject to considerable 

 variation. The scutellum may be entirely yellowish, or with 

 a median line occupying half or more of the surface. The 

 pygidium may have two or four spots. 



EUPCECILA AUSTRALASIA, Don. 



PI. vii., figs. 20, 21. 

 This species is abundant in many of the coastal districts 

 of New South Wales and Queensland/ 26 ) but is rare in Vic- 

 toria, South Australia, and the Northern Territory. When 

 specimens are alive their markings are of a vivid green, but 

 after being placed in alcohol these become yellow or 



(26) Queensland specimens are usually smaller than those from 

 New South Wales. 



