BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 
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Elytra longer than wide, wider than prothorax, widest behind the 
base, apex conjointly rounded. Femora thick. Length 1 1, 
width 4 mm. 
Hob. — Richmond River. 
Clypeaster pulchella, n. sp. 
Rather elongate. Prothorax bright red, with a piceous mark 
at its apex; elytra black, a broad bright red fascia across the 
middle, which is seemingly composed of two large semilunar spots 
having their convex sides towards the base, metasternum — except 
middle of apex — and sides of basal abdominal segment piceous- 
black, other segments piceous at sides, but decreasing to apex; 
head and antennae brown. Elytra with rather short and sparse 
pubescence, still sparser and shorter on prothorax, undersurface 
with longer and sparser pubescence than above. Prothorax 
extremely minutely, elytra and metasternum very minutely 
punctate. 
Prothorax shallowly bisinuate, angles scarcely produced. Scutel- 
lum transverse, semicircularly rounded. Elytra considerably 
longer than wide, widest behind the base and wider than pro- 
thorax, not much narrower near apex than at base, each separately 
rounded. Femora not very thick, distance between posterior 
greater than their length. Length 1 J, width -| (vix) mm. 
Hab. — Sydney, Forest Reefs. 
Easily recognisable by the red fascia on the elytra; G . fasciatus 
(from Tasmania) is described as having deep punctures on the 
elytra, and the legs differently coloured — characters not possessed 
by the present species. 
Clypeaster Andersoni, n.sp. 
Moderately elongate. Dark red; prothorax with an indistinct 
piceous mark at apex, base feebly tinged with piceous; elytra 
with a brownish blotch about scutellum; a piceous tinge at the 
junction of the meso- and metasternum and about all the coxse; 
antennte brown. Above equally clothed with not very long 
pubescence, the pubescence on he undersurface sparser and 
