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Eleale cribrata.^ 9 ) Sclienklg. 



Mr. F. E. Wilson has sent me from Kiata, Victoria, 

 several specimens which agree very well with the description 

 of this species, except that the whole upper-surface is blue- 

 black, with here and there a coppery reflection ; four speci- 

 mens with the typical colouring have been taken at Lucin- 

 dale, South Australia. 



Allelidea similis, n. sp. 



Black; antennae (club infuscated) and parts of legs pale 

 testaceous ; elytra with two white fasciae, one basal and the 

 other submedian; scutellum black. With sparse subdepressed 

 white' setae, longer and more numerous on sides and legs. 



Head wider than prothorax, with moderately large punc- 

 tures; these are separate and distinct on top of head, but 

 are> crowded together on the forepart, and running into each 

 other in such a way as to form a more or less distinct, longi- 

 tudinal carina midway between the eyes. Antennae short, 

 Prothorax longer than wide, apex wider than base, inflated 

 near the middle and very much constricted at base, with an 

 almost obsolete, transverse impression near apex ; punctures 

 larger than those on the head, and sparsely but evenly dis- 

 tributed. Elytra at base about as Avide as base of prothorax, 

 then gradually widening to beyond the middle, when they 

 gently contract towards apex, which is rounded; punctures 

 moderately large, distinct, and seriate, becoming smaller and 

 less distinct posteriorly. Legs long and slender. Length, 

 3 mm. 



Hob. — Australia; probably Queensland. Type (unique), 

 in Queensland Museum. 



On the elytra the basal fasciae are not interrupted by 

 the suture and touch the margins, the submedian fasciae 

 touch the margins but are interrupted by a very narrow strip 

 at the suture; both fasciae are slightly narrower at suture 

 than at the margins. The anterior tibiae are more or less 

 pale, and the apices of the intermediate and posterior ones 

 are also pale. This insect very much resembles A . hrevi- 

 pennis, Pascoe, with the elytra continued to beyond the second 

 white part, where it is cut off on that species ; it also differs 

 in having the prothorax more closely punctured on the disc. 

 There is a resemblance in shape to a big A. ctenostomoides, 

 Waterh./ but having the elytra without subapical white mark- 

 ing; and it is also closely associated with A. curvifascmta, 

 Lea, from which it differs in having the white basal markings 

 broader and almost parallel, and the submedian fascia broader 



(9) Schenkling, Deut. Ent. Miis. Mittl., 1916, p. 148. 



