BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 
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segments and posterior tibiae and tarsi tinged with brown; aculeus 
piceous-brown. Covered all over (except on elytral markings) 
with yellowish silky pubescence, which is longest above; posterior 
tibiae and tarsi edged with blackish setae. Prothorax with three 
rather indistinct maculae, the median rather narrow and lanceolate 
in shape, the outer ones small. 
Aculeus rather short and broad, strongly lessened about the 
middle: apex narrow, feebly rounded. Posterior spurs unequal 
in length, the longest fully half the length of the first tarsal joint. 
Length 2f , width 1 mm. 
Bab.— Blackheath (Mr. G. Masters). 
MORDELLA V-FASCIATA, II. sp. 
Reddish-testaceous; prothorax with a faint piceous spot in the 
middle; elytra black, the shoulders reddish- testaceous, an oblique 
stripe extending from them to the suture at a little more than 
half its length, becoming very indistinct as it approaches the 
suture, the two forming an elongated V. Metasternum stained 
with piceous at the sides; abdominal segments black, narrowly 
edged with obscure red; four posterior tibiae and tarsi tipped with 
piceous; antennas piceous, the two basal joints testaceous. 
Covered with greyish pubescence, silvery on elytral stripe and 
basal segment of abdomen. 
Aculeus long, narrow (but wider than deep), apex sharply 
pointed. Posterior spurs unequal, the longest about half the 
length of the first tarsal joint. Length 2 J, width 4 mm. 
Hab.— Galston (Lea); Blackheath (Mr. G. Masters). 
I have two specimens which in all structural details agree 
exactly with the types of the above species; the markings are 
somewhat different, but an examination of a number of specimens 
would probably discover intermediates. For the present I think 
them deserving of varietal rank. 
var. VENUSTA. 
Black; muzzle, prothorax, an oblique humeral stripe (broad at 
the base, narrowing and almost touching suture at its middle), 
