KY A. SIDNEY OLLIFF, P.E.S. 489 



135. Xantholinus Albertisi. 



XanthoUmis Albertisi, Fauvel, Ann. Mas. Genov. X. p. 246 

 (1877) ; I. c. XII. pi. 1, fig. 26 (1878). 



Colore iustabilis, abdomiue aeneo, thorace vel aeneo, vel aeneo- 

 violaceo, capite saepius aureo-violaceo hoc, saepe elytrisque summa 

 basi aureo-viridibus, elytris vel violaceo viridibus, latoribus 

 rufulis, vel vix cupreis cum palpis, antennarum mandibularumque 

 basi rufis, his apice coxisque piceolis, antennarum articulis 4-10 

 transversis, opacis 11° brevi, acumiuato, 3, 4, vel 5 ultimis testaceo- 

 albidis ; pedibus totis aliquando brunneis, vel piceis ; capite maris 

 maximo, deplauato, subti'ansverso, breviter ovato, fronte omnium 

 subtilissime strigosula, sulcis duobus antennariis minus, oculariis 

 magis profundis, his I'ecte transversis, puncto terminatis, punctis 

 duobus aliis intus prope oculi marginem posticum, quinque aliis 

 utrinque basi, lateribus totis subtusque anguste subtiliter dense 

 punctato rngoso, infra strigosulo, quadriimpresso ; thorace elytris 

 sat angustiore, subtrapezoidali, omnium subtilissime punctulato, 

 puncto magno circa angulum anteriorem, lateribus vix strigosulis, 

 ad marginem inflexum serie punctorum notatis ; scutello aeneo, 

 circiter 8-punctato : elytris thorace vix longioribus, crebre fortiter, 

 lateribus densius, punctatis, serie intrahumerali punctorum ma- 

 jorum impressa ; abdomine grosse sat dense utrinque punctato ;, 

 alis fulvo-violaceis ; 9 capite multo minore, thorace angustio)'e, 

 breviter ovato, sulcis ocularibus fere nullis, puncto post-oculai-i 

 unico, utrinque ad oculorum mandibularumque basim parum dense 

 fortius punctato. Long. 12-13 mm. { Fvl.) 



Cape York, Somerset, Russell River, Mulgrave River, North 

 Queensland. Also recorded from Ternate, New Guinea, Aru 

 Islands, and the Celebes. 



This species is said to vary considerably in colour and punctua- 

 tion, and has been divided by M. Fauvel into three geographical 

 forms ; the first, from Ternate, has the anterior half of the head 

 and the sides of the prothorax very finely striolate, the last three 

 pints of the antennae testaceous, the elytra and the abdomen 



