468 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES^ 

 TOMYRIS L^TA, Sp.nov. 



Oblonga ; sat angusta ; subnitida ; laete viridis, abdomine ciipreo 

 vel aureo-micante, labro, mandibulis, palpis, antennis (articulo 

 ultimo apice obscure excepto), pedibusque, flavis ; corpore supra 

 sat sequaliter confertissime subtiliter aspere punctulato, brevissime 

 confertim aureo-pubescenti, subtus sat fortiter minus crebre punc- 

 tulato, sat dense albo-pubescenti ; oculis fortiter convexis ; elytris 

 postice minus abrupte declivibus. [Long. \\-2% lat. 5 (vix)-l line. 



Apart from colour, very like T. rasa but a narrower species, its 

 elytra more closely finely and rugulosely punctulate, and its meso- 

 sternum very evidently narrower between the intermediate coxae. 

 From T. ohscura it difiers widely in colour, in sculpture, in the 

 narrowness of the prosternum between the anterior coxae, &c. 

 From T. viridula, Er., which it resembles in colour, it differs in 

 the very fine and close sculpture of the prothorax, &c. [The sexual 

 characters are described under T. imjoressicollis.'] 



Forke's Peninsula. 



TOMYRIS GRACILIS, Sp.UOV. 



Anguste oblonga ; sat nitida ; aureo-pubescens ; viridis, abdomine 

 cupreo-micante, labro, mandibulis, palpis, antennis (articulo ultimo 

 apice nigro excepto), pedibusque, flavis ; capite prothoraceque 

 fortiter rugulose sat crebre, elytris confertim aspere minus fortiter, 

 punctulatis ; corpore subtus antice confertim, postice sparsius, 

 punctulato ; oculis sat fortiter convexis ; elytris postice minus 

 abrupte declivibus ; prothorace trans versim impresso ; antennis 

 corpore longioribus, articulo 4° 3° tertia parte longiori. 



[Long, 1? (vix), lat. 5 line. 



The puncturation of the head and prothorax, — very much coarser 

 and stronger than of the elytra, — will distinguish this species from 

 most of its congeners, and the inequality inter se of the 3rd and 



