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canaliculate, antice nee concavo nee tuberculato ; elytris 



obscure in^qualiter rugulosis, leviter getninatim striatis ; 



antennarnm llabello elongato-ovali, quam stipes sat longiori. 



[Long. 6, lat. 31 lines. 



At once distinguished from its two previously described 



congeners by the front margin of the prothorax of the male not 



being raised into a tubercle in the middle, and the transverse 



carina of the head being extremely feeble. The flabellum of the 



antennae in the male is intermediate in length between that of 



A. calvus,'Bla,ckh., and A. Eichardsce, Blackb., being about once and 



a third as long as the stipes. The puncturation of the prothorax 



is similarly intermediate, being evidently stronger than in A. 



Eichardsce, but scarcely so strong as in ^. calvus. The elytra are 



vei-y evidently more rugulose than in either of the previously 



described species. The prothorax has a very massive appearance 



owing to its anterior narrowing not commencing until quite close 



to the front. 



W. Australia ; Eyre's Sandy Patch, 



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BUPRESTID.^. 

 Melobasis vittigera, Thoms. 

 I believe this to be merely a variety of M. cujoreo-vittata, Saund. 

 I have intermediate forms in my collection. 



Melobasis subcyanea, sp.no v. 

 Sat convexa ; minus nitida ; obscure cyanea, elytris basin 

 lateraque versus indeterminate cupreo-purpurascentibus, 

 capite (nonnullis exemplis) viridescenti ; hoc leviter convexo, 

 crebre subrugulose punctulato ; prothorace quam longiori fere 

 duplo (postice quam antice circiter tertia parte) latiori, crebre 

 minus fortiter (latera versus magis crebre rugulose) punctulato, 

 vix manifeste canaliculato, lateribus sat arcuatis ; scutello vix 

 punctulato ; elytris ad apicem rotundatis, antice in disco 

 utrinque gibbosis, obscure punctulato-striatis, interstitiis hie 

 illic ineequaliter convexis, lateribus postice subtiliter denti- 

 culatis ; coipore subtus crebre punctulato, prosterno antice 

 declivi. [Long. 5, lat. 2 lines. 



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