466 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES, 



the uniform asperate punctiiration of its upper surface, the elytra 

 in T. indchella being very finely striolate. The shortness and 

 comparative coarseness of the pubescence in this species suggests 

 the idea of a hairy surface that has been closely shaved. In some 

 lights the prothorax shows a very faint dorsal impressed channel. 



Port Lincoln ; also on Yorke's Peninsula. 



TOMYRIS NEGLIGENS, sp.nOV. 



Oblonga ; minus nitida ; cupreo-senea j clypeo antice laete viridi 

 marginato ; subtus viridis ; ore, palpis, antennis (articulo ultimo 

 apice vix inf uscato) pedibusque, flavis ; corpore supra sat tequaliter 

 confertissime subtiliter aspere punctulato, brevissime confertim 

 aureo-pubescenti ; sternis abdomineque dense albo-pubescentibus ; 

 oculis minus fortiter convexis; elytris postice haud abrupte decliv- 

 ibus. [Long. 2?, lat. \\ lines. 



Very closely allied to the preceding. The upper surface (under 

 the pubescence) is much less shining and much less vividly coloured, 

 and its puncturation (especially on the elytra) is markedly more 

 asperate in character. The apex of the last antennal joint is 

 hardly infuscate. The eyes are very much less prominent. The 

 prothorax (viewed from above) appears to be less rounded on the 

 sides and less narrowed in front ; the true margin (which is 

 invisible from above owing to the sides being strongly declivous) 

 is seen when viewed from the side to be very little different from 

 that of T. rasa in curvature, but to have its angles with both the 

 front margin and base much better defined ; the hind angle is 

 here almost a right angle, but in T. rasa is quite rounded off. 

 The elytra are less abruptly declivous behind. The humeral calli 

 are of a green colour. The 5th ventral segment in the male bears 

 a large transversely quadrate excavation divided into two parts by 

 an obscure carina which runs down its middle. The basal joint 

 •of the anterior tarsi in the same sex is scarcely dilated. 



Yorke's Peninsula ; unique in my collection. 



