collected in Australia and Tasmania. 
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Mordella leucosticta. 
Mordella leucosticta^ Germ._, Linn. Ent._, iii., p. 203 
(1848). 
? Mordella ahdominalis, Blessig, Horse Ent. Ross., i., 
p. 113, t. 3, %. 3 (1861). 
? Mordella octomaculata, Macl.^ Trans. Ent. Soc. 
N. S. W., ii., p. 308 (1872). 
Sah, Tasmania — Hobart. 
Three specimens. Originally recorded from Adelaide. 
Mordella trivialis. 
Mordella trivialis, C. 0. Waterh., Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lend., 1878, p. 232 (Oct.).* 
Hah, Tasmania — Hobart and Launceston. 
Four specimens. Mr. Waterliouse's examples were 
from S. Australia. 
Mordella graphiptera, n. sp. 
Short and broad, black ; the head clothed with yellowish- 
cinereous pubescence ; the prothorax with the margins and base, 
a median line, a line on either side of it, and a triangular mark at 
the base exterior to this, f ulvo-cinereous, the rest of the pubescence 
purplish-black ; the scutellum f ulvo-cinereous-pubescent ; the elytra 
with two confluent, transversely placed, oval or rounded spots on 
the disc a little beyond the middle, the inner one connected with a 
rather broad juxta-sutural stripe extending from the base down- 
wards, a short curved stripe at the shoulders, an oblong spot 
between the lower part of this and the jnxta-sutural stripe, and 
a small oblong mark close to the suture a little before the apex, 
f ulvo-cinereous- pubescent, the rest of the pubescence purplish- 
black ; the base of the pygidium and the sides of the ventral seg- 
ments with patches of yellowish-cinereous pubescence. Antennae 
rather short, joint 4 a little longer than 3, 5 much longer than 4, 
5-10 serrate, longer than broad ; the basal joints sometimes obscure 
testaceous. Pygidium rather short, truncate at the tip. Length 
(to the end of the elytra) 3| mm. 
Mr. Waterhouse has described (op. cit., p. 236) a species of 
Mordella from S. Australia under the name of obliqua. This name 
is preoccupied in the genus [Leconte, Proc. Am, Phil. Soc, xvii., 
p. 428 (Feb., 1878)], and I propose to substitute the name water- 
housei for the Australian insect. 
