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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN 



COLEOPTERA. 



By Arthur M. Lea. 



Part IV. 



CICINDELID^. 



CiCINDELA SlOANEI, ll.Sp. 



(J. Rather narrow and subparallel: elytra subopaque, elsewhere 

 shining. Head coppery; clypeus purplish-brown, a testaceous 

 stripe down its middle; mandibles white, their apices brown; 

 antennae testaceous, each joint tipped with l)rown. Prothorax 

 coppery. Elytra chocolate-brown, distinctly margined with white, 

 extreme margins testaceous. Body beneath and legs reddish- 

 testaceous, tips of tarsal joints and claws brownish. 



Head large, longitudinally corrugated, near apex and base in 

 middle irregularly transversely or obliquely corrugated ; disc 

 feebly concave; a whitish seta on each side near antennae, and a 

 longer one on each side close to eyes; eyes large, subreniform; 

 antennae slender, passing intermediate coxae. Prothorax slightly 

 longer than wide, transversely and irregularly corrugate, base and 

 apex compressed; middle raised, bilobed, and with a feeble median 

 line. Elyt7^a slightly narrower than head across eyes, subparallel, 

 about thrice the length of prothorax; each with an irregular row 

 of shallow punctures (about five in number) at one-third from 

 suture; with other and smaller punctures, which are moderately 

 distinct near shoulders and only traceable with difficulty elsewhere; 

 suture slightly thickened near apex. Legs very long, femora and 

 tibiae with rather sparse whitish setae; tarsi (especially the anterior) 

 with denser and blackish setae. Length 9; width 3 (vix) mm. 



5. Difiers in being larger (12 mm.), head smaller, eyes less 

 prominent, clypeus unicolorous, apical segment of abdomen 

 sufiused with brown, anterior tarsi clothed as the four posterior. 



