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APPENDIX : TENEBKIONID.E FKOM DORRIGO, 



Chalcopterns pitnctulatihs BIkb., (Coif's Harbour), Chalcopterus^ 

 spp.(2?). Total : 35 species, including three new species. 



Cardiothorax dorrigoensis, n.sp. (Fig. 1.) 



(J. Elongate-ovate, violet-bronze, nitid, antennifi fuscous-brown, 

 tarsi piceous clothed beneath with reddish hair, undersurface 

 nitid black. 



Head impunctate, labrum emaiginate and fringed with red 

 hair, the usual frontal impression distinct, with two deep foveas 

 near front angles of epistonia; canthus raised and somewhat 

 triangulate; antennae longer^than prothorax, third joint equal to 



that of the first two combined, eleventh 

 elongate. Prothorax 4x5 mm., finely 

 margined throughout, wider at apex 

 than at base, widest in front of middle,- 

 arciiate-emarginate at apex and base, 

 front angles subacute but rounded, sides 

 slightly rounded with curve strongest 

 anteriorly, sinuate near base, hind angles 

 acute, dentate and twisted downwards 

 v^l and horizontally outwards; foliate mar- 



I gins wide, flat, and brightly metallic, 

 slightly narrovi'ed at base, with a shallow 

 separating sulcus on anterior portion, 

 with six setiferous punctures placed at 

 equal distances near the border, disc 

 smooth, central channel well marked 

 throughout, two large basal foveae ac- 

 centuating the angular torsion. Scutellum 

 triangular, without any adjacent de- 

 pression. Elytra wider at base than 

 prothorax, moderately convex, shoulders 

 advanced but rounded, epipleural fold forming a raised margin, 

 on each elytron eight well marked sulci, intervals convex, the 

 fifth wider than the rest, a row of very small punctures on the 

 sides, epipleurai and abdomen smooth; all femora emarginate 



Fig. 1. — C. dorrigoensis. 



