BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 
299 
Mordella humeralis, Waterh.; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 4322. 
This is another common and variable species. In many speci- 
mens the yellow elytral stripe does not turn up to join the suture; 
sometimes the stripe is bare, sometimes covered with yellowish 
pubescence, which occasionally extends right across; the two 
connected stripes often appear as a cleanly cut W, more frequently 
the outer edges are jagged or rounded; the spots near the apex 
of each elytron are often joined, appearing as a narrow crescent, 
which has its convex side towards the apex, sometimes as a single 
moderately large spot, and — rather rarely — all are united to form 
a transverse fascia; the yellowish pubescence frequently extends 
along the suture from the base to in line with the apical spots. 
The pro thoracic maculae are often distinct, and equally as often 
entirely obsolete. I have a specimen in which the elytral pubes- 
cence appears as four distinct maculae. The size is somewhat 
variable. 
Ilab. — Blackheath (Mr. G. Masters); Tamworth, Forest Reefs, 
Sydney (Lea). 
Mordella pulchra, n.sp. 
Black; abdomen bright red, aculeus piceous-black at apex; four 
anterior coxae, femora and the palpi brownish-testaceous, tibia? 
and tarsi darker; antennae reddish-piceous, at the base testaceous; 
spurs to posterior tibiae testaceous. Head and prothorax not 
very densely clothed with somewhat silvery pubescence, on the 
latter three indistinct black maculae, the largest extending from 
near the base to near the apex, the lateral ones oblique, almost 
touching the central. Elytra with silvery pubescence as follows : 
between the suture and sides an elongate somewhat triangular 
spot, narrowly joined to the suture at the base; on the shoulders 
a rather indistinct spot, which can hardly be separated from the 
inner one; two transverse zigzag fasciae, one slightly before the 
middle, the other before the apex, the one in the middle very 
narrow at the sides, broadest at the suture, from the sides (on its 
anterior edge) running obliquely backwards, then up, down, up, 
and then semicircularly to the suture, its posterior edge triangular 
