BY A. SIDNEY OLLIPF, P.E.S. 509 



^ H. rufipenni paulo major ; nitidissimus, parce longe nigro 

 pilosus, capite, thorace elytrisque laete cupreis, abdomine nigro, 

 vix irideo ; ore, antennis articulis 3 primis, thoracis marginibus 

 subtus, elytris humeris margineque laterali, abdominis segmento 

 6° apice 7° que toto, pedibusque cum coxis anticis rufis ; antennis 

 sat incrassatis, ]iilosis, caeterum nigris, articulis 3 vel 4 ultimis 

 flavis ; capite sat fortiter transverso, subquadratim orbiculari, 

 angulis posticis rotundatis, fronte antice subimpressa, bi'eviter 

 longitudinaliter sulcata, punctis binis utrinque ad impressionem, 

 alio extus majore in margine oculi, 3 vel 4 aliisprope oculiangulum 

 posticum interiorem, caeterum post oculos subtilius parum dense 

 punctato ; thorace convexo, subquadrato, tertia fere parte longiore 

 quam latiore, capitis latitudine, circa basin vix angustato, basi 

 fortiter rotundato, antice truncate, angulis anticis subrectis, seriebus 

 dorsalibus duabus 10 vel 12 fortiter punctatis, punctis aliis saepius 

 minoribus utrinque dispersis ; scutello creberrime subtilissimeque 

 punctulato, virescente ; elytris fere transversim quadratis, thorace 

 tertia parte latioribus, parum brevioriljus, subconvexis, parce sat 

 fortiter subsquamose, abdomine vix fortius, basi parce, apice 

 crebrius, subtus dense punctatis ; segmento 6° subtus apice sinuato, 

 7° subtriangulariter sat late profundeque inciso ; tarsis anticis 

 fortiter dilatatis. Long. 11^ mm. (FvL) 



9 latet. (Fvl.) 



Barron River, Pine Mountains, Gayndah, Wide Bay, Brisbane, 

 Moreton Bay, Queensland ; Clarence River, Upper Hunter, 

 lllawarra, New South Wales. 



I think there is no doubt that the above synonymy is correct. 

 M. Fauvel's very accurate description, which I have quoted in full, 

 agrees in every detail with the type of Hesperus haemorrJioidalis 

 in the collection of the Australian Museum. 



157. Hesperus pacipicus, sp. n. 



Black, shining, very sparingly clothed with long black pubes- 

 cence ; head, prothorax, and elytra bronze-green ', antennae with 

 the last joint testaceous ; abdomen with the apex of the 6th and 

 the whole of the 7th joint reddish testaceous; legs pitchy. 



