618 NEW AUSTRALIAN SPECIKS OF CAKABIDiE, 



dentate, inflexed margins of elytra narrow ; anterior tibise 

 2-deutate. Head atro-viridescent: pronotum bright green with 

 slightly cupreous tints towards sides, atrous in middle near 

 anterior margin; elytra golden-green, disc purple-black neai 

 suture; pro-episterna with viridescent tints: body black, nitid, 

 with faint viridescent tints on sides of ventral segments: legs 

 piceous-black. 



Head large (4 mm. across eyes), convex, declivous to anterior 

 margin, transversely impressed across occiput; frontal sulci long, 

 deep, divergent^ frontal spaces convex, middle space filling all 

 the interval between posterior extremities of frontal sulci ; 

 clypeus with median part obsoletely 3-sinuate : intermediate 

 angles short, obtuse; eyes deeply enclosed in orbits, not pro- 

 minent; suborbital channel short, wide, concave, not divided by 

 a longitudinal ridge; submentum strongly raised from gula*: 

 foveate on each side behind genje. Prothorax a little wider 

 than head (4'1 x 4'5 mm.), convex, strongly declivous to posteiior 

 angles; basal area defined by a transverse impression ; sides 

 parallel, rounded at posterior angles, sinuate on each side of 

 base; anterior margin truncate: anterior angles slightly pro- 

 minent; border narrow, thickened across basal lobe. Elvtia of 

 about same width as prothorax (8-7 x 4-6 mm.), subparallel on 

 sides; base truncate, vertical above peduncle, punctate; disc 

 depressed; sides strongly and roundly declivous: 1. order narrow, 

 thickened towards apex, upturned in a short subdentiform pro- 

 minence at humeral angles; a closely placed row of punctures 

 along sides. Ventral segments 3-5 bipunctate: reflexed border 

 of apical ventral segment not foveolate on each side. I-egs long; 

 anterior femora compressed; anterior tibia- strongly 2-dentate, 

 apical plate witliout a dentiform process below tarsus; inter- 

 mediate tibiae with a short triangular external spur at apex: 

 posterior legs long, light; posterior trochanters narrowed to 

 apex, bearing a setigerous puncture. Length, 16o; breadtlj, 

 4:"6 mm. 



Uah. — Northern Territory : Darwin (Spencer). Type in 

 National Museum, Melbourne. 



Besembles (J. diyylesi Macl., in facies, but differs, apart from 



