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subtiliter, latera versus minus crebre, in episternis (his 

 subopacis) subtilissiuie minus perspicue, punctulato ; abdo- 

 mine minus sparsini minus subtiliter punctulato et sat 

 fortiter rugato ; femoribus anticis antice sparsim subtiliter 

 punctulatis ; tarsis subtus nigro-sefcosis, posticorum articulo 

 basali quam ceteri conjuneti parum breviori. 



[Long. 5-6^, lat. 3-31 lines. 

 The head is very nitid, and is impressed with a fine more or 

 less distinct line down the middle, for some distance on either 

 side of which the surface is la?vigate ; the rest of the head is 

 finely but very distinctly punctured, the punctures tending to 

 become stronger and less close from the front of the clypeus 

 hindward. The space between the eyes is about ;' of a line 

 wide. The puncturation of the prothorax is faintly impressed 

 and therefore not at all conspicuous, but is not no fine as in many 

 species in which it is more conspicuous. The surface of the 

 prothorax is not less nitid than that of the elytra. The seriate 

 punctures of the elytra are finer than in most Chalcopteri, being 

 in fact so little larger than the punctures of the interstices 

 (especially in the male) as to appear somewhat indistinct. They 

 are generally slightly more closely placed in the series in the ^ 

 than in the (J. In (say) the middle part of the 4th series from 

 the suture there are in a length equal to the width of an 

 interstice about four punctures in the male and about (or scarcely) 

 five in the female. The interstices are absolutely flat throughout. 

 The antennae scarcely differ sexually, but the general form being 

 distinctly more elongate in the female, the antenna? in that sex 

 are shorter in comparison of the total length. I do not know 

 any species of Chalcopterus in which the eyes are more widely 

 separated. 



The above is a desciiption of the ordinary form of cicpripefinis, 

 which occurs abundantly all over Southern Australia. It is an 

 exceedingly variable species however in respect of the colour of 

 the elytra, special colouring appearing to predominate in certain 

 localities. Examples from the interior of S. Australia (Port 

 Augusta, &c.) usually have blue elytra with purplish reflections, 



