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Agetinus iEQUALis, Blackb. 



A small series of this insect recently sent from the Northern 

 Territory by Dr. Bovill displays a considerable variety in colour 

 and size, — some specimens being much smaller (long. I5 lines) 

 than the type, and there being green and blue as well as copper 

 coloured specimens among them. I do not think however that they 

 represent more than one species. 



TOMYRIS RASA, Sp.nOV. 



Oblonga; nitida; supra igneo-cuprea, clypeo antice laete viridi mar- 

 ginato ; subtus seneo-viridis, prosterno et abdomine postice cupreo- 

 micantibus ; ore, palpis, an tennis (articulo ultimo apice nigro 

 excepto), pedibusque, flavis ; corpore supra sat sequaliter confer- 

 tissime subtiliter subaspere punctulato, brevissime confertitn aureo- 

 pubescenti ; sternis subcrasse, abdomine subtiliter, crebre punctu- 

 latis, sat crebre albido-pubescentibus ; oculis fortiter convexis ; 

 elytris postice sat abrupte declivibus. [Long. 2|, lat. 1 1 lines. 



The antennse are about f the whole length of the body. The 

 clypeus is bidentate in front. The surface of the head is very 

 gently convex. The pro thorax is not much less than twice as 

 wide as long ; its front margin is not much narrower than its base 

 and the sides are rather evenly but not very strongly rounded ; 

 viewed from above, however, the front appears much narrower 

 than the base, and the sides appear very strongly rounded, with 

 their greatest divergence very near the base. The elytra are not 

 more than ^ again as wide as the prothorax and are about double 

 the length of the head and prothorax together. The sculpture of 

 the upper surface is conspicuously asperate though fine, and is so 

 close that the surface might almost be called coriaceous rather 

 than punctulate. 



This species is much larger than those previously described 

 except T. pulchella, Chap., from which it differs in colour and in 

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