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NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
length, longest slightly bent, about half the length of first tarsal 
joint. Length lf-2J, width f mm. 
.Hab. — Sydney. 
In some lights there appears to be a dark stripe down the 
suture. The colour of the posterior tarsi is the distinctive feature 
of this species. 
MORDELLA FUSCA, n.sp. 
Head, prothorax and undersurface piceous-black; elytra, 
antenna?, legs (one specimen has the posterior femora black), the 
apex of metasternum and abdominal segments piceous-brown; 
spurs to posterior tibia? testaceous. Rather sparsely covered all 
over with yellowish-grey pubescence. 
Aculeus moderately long, broad at the base, strongly narrowed 
about the basal third; apex sharply pointed. Posterior legs thick, 
spurs equal and half the length of the first tarsal joint. Length 
3, width | mm. 
Hab. — Forest Reefs, Tamworth. 
Somewhat resembling M. setipes in appearance, differing from 
it in being more robust, smaller and somewhat differently coloured. 
MORDELLA SETIPES, n.Sp. 
Castaneous, four anterior legs and antenna? paler, abdominal 
segments with their margins narrowly paler; four posterior tibiae 
and posterior tarsi tipped with piceous; posterior tibia? and tarsi 
with stiff compressed piceous seta?. Covered all over with 
yellowish pubescence, densest on elytra, longest on sides of meso- 
and metasternum. 
Aculeus rather long, broader than deep, basal half narrowly 
margined. Longest spur of posterior tibia? about the length of 
the first tarsal joint, shortest not a fourth. Length 4-5 J, width 
l(vix)-l J mm. 
Hab. — Galston, Tamworth, Forest Reefs, Sydney; beaten from 
drying leaves of Eucalypts not long felled. 
An elongate, very shining species, varying slightly in colour. 
I have several small specimens from Sydney which I cannot 
separate from this species. 
