268 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Heteromerous Coleoptera 
Sab. Tasmania — Hobart and Launceston. 
Four specimens. This species cannot be identified 
with any of those described by Mr. Waterhouse. The 
thorax may be described as having two vittae on the 
middle of the disc, and a large patch at the sides purplish- 
black. The elytral markings do not quite reach the 
suture^ the suture being black throughout ; each elytron 
has five spots or marks, and a juxta-sutural stripe extend- 
ing to the middle, clothed with fulvo-cinereous pubes- 
cence. The juxta-sutural stripe and the inner median spot 
form together a Z- shaped mark. The tibial spurs are 
testaceous. 
Mordella communis. 
Mordella communis, 0. 0. Waterh., Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond., 1878, p. 231. 
Sab. Tasmania — -Hobart and Launceston. 
This seems to be the commonest species of the genus 
in Tasmania. The median spots on the elytra are some- 
times confluent. Numerous specimens have also been 
received with the elytra almost uniformly clothed with 
blackish pubescence; they appear to be nothing more 
than a variety of this species. 
Mordella promiscua. 
Mordella promiscua, Er., in Wiegm. Archiv, 1842, 1, 
p. 181. 
Hab. Tasmania — Hobart. 
Two specimens, perhaps belonging to this species, 
originally recorded from Tasmania. 
Mordella ruficollis. 
Mordella ruficollis, C. 0. Waterh., Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond., 1878,p. 234. 
Sab. Tasmania — Hobart and Launceston. 
Two specimens, apparently both males. The antennae 
are incorrectly described by Mr. Waterhouse : joints 3 
and 4 are very short, equal in length, the following ones 
longer than broad. 
