464 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Chlorobapta tibialis, n.sp. 



(J. i '.lack, highly polished; with bright green markings. Upper 

 surface with short, sparse setae, but between eyes denser and 

 longer; under-surface with irregularly distributed setse and hairs, 

 much longer and stouter on liind tibiae than elsewhere. 



Head with irregular punctures, coarser and denser between eyes 

 than elsewhere, an impunctate space in middle of neck; clypeus 

 with a wide shallow groove on each side, its apex widely rounded 

 and thickened at sides, and very feebly incurved to middle. Pro- 

 thorax moderately transverse, sides thickened, the basal two- 

 tliirds almost parallel; with small scattered punctures. Elytra 

 with a wide irregular longitudinal impression along middle of each 

 disc; with small and sparse punctures; about sides and apex with 

 sinuous transverse impressions. Abdomen with a median depres- 

 sion on four basal segments. Pygidium, with concentric impres- 

 sions starting from two small spaces at its extreme tip. Legs 

 obliquely impressed; front tibiae thin, with a curved apical tooth 

 and two smaller ones; middle tibiae stouter, apex with two acute 

 teeth (in addition to the spines), and a small median one; hind 

 tibiae still stouter, near tlie base with a conspicuous fascicle of long 

 hairs, about middle with a strong tooth, then strongly incurved 

 to apex, with the apex itself produced as a strong hook continuing 

 the curve, middle claws uneven, the inner one much as the others, 

 but the outer one somewhat shorter, much wider, strongly curved 

 on its outer edge, and notched near its base on the inner edge. 

 Length 19 mm. 



//a^.— Queensland : Tngham(type in Coll. C. French). 



The specimen described at first appeared to me to be a variety 

 of C. Besti, but it is at once distinguished from that species by 

 the hind tibiae; the markings differ in being of a much brighter 

 green; the black shoulder-spot of C. Besti is, in this species, pro- 

 duced obliquely backwards so as to join in with the median spot, 

 but this is not enlarged. The punctures also are considerably 

 smaller, this being notably the case on the prothorax. 



The green occupies the greater portion of the clypeus. On the 

 prothorax, it margins the sides and apex; and, at about one- 



