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light), inflexed margins bluish-green; sides of prosternum flushed 

 Avith blue, point of prosternum between coxse, sides of metaster- 

 num and posterior cox^e bluish. 



Head smooth, transverse (3 x 4'5 mm.), lightly transversely 

 impressed across vertex; facial sulci long, deep, diverging back- 

 wards: preocular sulcus lightly marked, wide; preocular prominence 

 small; e5'^es convex, very protuberant, deeply enclosed in orbits 

 at base; orbits short behind eyes, projecting strongly from head; 

 two supraorbital punctures on each side. Prothorax transverse 

 (4 X 5'4 mm.), convex; sides rounded; anterior margin widely 

 emarginate; anterior angles wide, obtuse, prominent; posterior 

 angles not marked; basal curve trisinuate, a well-marked sinuosity 

 at middle and a lighter sinuosit}'' on each side half-way between 

 middle of base and posterior marginal jDuncture; boi'der wide, 

 reflexed; median line well marked; two marginal punctures on 

 each side. Elytra ovate (8x5 '8 mm.), convex; anterior part of 

 disc rather depressed; suture strongly impressed; base'*truncate; 

 sides rounded; border wide, shortly upturned at humeral angles; 

 five punctures in a single row at base of each elytron. Prosternum 

 deeply channelled between coxaj. Legs as in C. Icevigatum, Macl. 



Length 16-5, breadth 5-8 mm. 



Hab. — Victoria, North-west (Mallee) District (Coll. French). 



A single specimen of this pretty species was sent to me for 

 description by Mr. French after my notes on the 'marginatum- 

 group were completed ; it is differentiated from all the other 

 species of this group by its colour, and is the only member of the 

 group known to me to have any bluish tints on the under surface. 



Carenum opacicolle, n.sp. 



Robust, subdepressed; head depressed, suborbital channels wide 



and divided posteriorly by a longitudinal ridge; prothorax with 



three marginal punctures on each side; elytra quadripunctate on 



apical third, inflexed margin wide behind first ventral segment, 



border folded back and forming a short obtuse projection at 



shoulders ; anterior tibite bidentate, intermediate tibite with 



external apical spur very small, slender, acute; labial palpi with 

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