BY A. M. LEA. < 45 



king, sides almost parallel from base to apical two-fifths, and 

 then strongly narrowed to apex, front angles lightly produced 

 and rather widely rounded off, a narrow impressed line close to 

 each margin 1 ; punctures moderately dense, and sharply defined 

 but not very large. Scutellum with fairly dense punctures on 

 each side of base. Elytra slightly wider than prothorax; with 

 irregular punctures and striae. Pygidium with very dense, but 

 more or less concealed, punctures. Front tibiae strongly triden- 

 tate; front tarsi with three basal joints densely padded on under 

 surface, first joint distinctly longer than second, larger claw 

 cleft on all tarsi. Length, 18-19 mm. . 



llab.— Queensland : Dalby (Mrs. F. H. Hobler). 



As the labrum is not as in Anoplognathus, and its immediate 

 allies, and the larger claw on each tarsus is cleft, this species by 

 the table given by Ohaus* could only be referred to Amblyterus, 

 or to a new genus; the lower lip is somewhat pointed, in this 

 respect differing from A. cicatricosus and A. clypealis, and this, 

 with the distinctive pads on the front tarsi may eventually be 

 considered as of generic importance. The general appearance 

 of the species is strikingly like that of larger specimens of 

 cicatricosus, and the size is well within its range, but the clypeus 

 is very different from that of each sex of that species, the 

 hind claw-joint is very different, having a projection near the 

 base that causes the tarsi to appear as if six-jointed; on the 

 middle claw-joint there is a remnant of the projection, but 

 not on the front one. There is not a trace of the projection 

 on cicatricosus or clypealis, but there is on the species of 

 Schizognathus and Paraschizognathus. On the type the metal- 

 lic gloss of the upper surface is but slight, and is distinctly 

 purplish-blue; on a second specimen it is of a bright coppeiy- 

 green, and is vaguely extended on to the sutural portion of the 

 elytra. The upper surface is glabrous, except for a marginal 

 fringe on each elytron, and for a few white hairs on the ocular 

 canthi. The prothorax has but vague remnants of a median 

 line. Some of the elytral striae are deep and well defined, 

 with small punctures, and with a subgeminate arrangement, but 

 others are irregular and with larger ring punctures, so that they 

 appear as little more than irregular rows of punctures; near the 

 scutellum the punctures are larger than elsewhere, and the sur- 



•Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1904, p. 66 



