156 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA. 



capite fortiter sat crebre, prothorace (disco sparsim subtiliter, latera 

 versus crassissitne) elytris subtiliter confuse (his suturam versus 

 subseriatim) punctulatis. [Long. 2-2;|, lat. 1 line. 



The prothorax is twice as wide as it is long down the 

 middle, its front margin being very little wider than the base, the 

 sides very gently arched and the surface even, transversely 

 rather strongly convex ; the front margin is widely and feebly 

 emarginate, and is widely and strongly produced in the middle ; 

 all the angles are sharp. In a briglitly coloured example the 

 whole of the head scutellum and elytra, together with the margins 

 of the prothorax, appear in a certain light of a bright clear green 

 colour, while, from a different point of view, the colour appears 

 more purplish ; in more feebly coloured specimens the same parts 

 are of a fulvous hue suffused with a metallic green gloss. In all 

 the examples I have seen the elytra are quite unicolorous. 



Compared with C. Curtisi, Kirby, this species (apart from 

 ditierences of colour and size) has the elytra and the disc of the 

 prothorax very much more feebly punctulate, the sides of the 

 prothorax much less strongly and more evenly arched, and the 

 front margin of the same strongly and almost evenly bisinuate, 

 instead of being somewhat evenly and very deeply emarginate. 



Interior of S. Australia, Lake Eyre Basin, or thereabouts ; 

 taken by Mrs. Richards. 



