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lateral margins (and inflexed underpart of elytra) of a bright 

 copper colour, prothorax having the disc deep black with wide 

 fiery copper margins, head and underparts shining black. Head 

 subquadrate (2^x2|mm.); the frontal sulci almost parallel, a 

 little wider behind ; the lateral teeth of the clypeus very promi- 

 nent, a deeply impressed puncture behind them on each side ; the 

 preocular processes prominent ; the eyes hardly projecting beyond 

 the sides of the head ; one supra-orbital puncture above each eye. 

 Prothorax transverse (3^ x 5 mm.), rather convex, truncate in 

 front between the anterior angles — these a little advanced — ,very 

 lightly rounded on the sides, broadest just before the posterior 

 angles; the marginal border wide, reflexed, widest at the posterior 

 angles, sinuate on each side between the posterior angles and the 

 base ; the base shortly lobate, very lightly emarginate ; the 

 median line finely impressed, not reaching the border behind ; 

 the basal part of the protliorax not crossed or defined by a trans- 

 verse line ; two marginal punctures on each side. Elytra 

 Isevigate, elongate, very little wider than the prothorax 

 (9 X 5^ mm.), convex, with two discoidal punctures towards 

 the apex ; the sides subparallel, widest at about half the length, 

 a little narrowed to the base, the base truncate, the humeral 

 angles strongly marked and upturned ; the lateral margins not 

 wide, within them a row of closely set punctures. Prosternum 

 hardly impressed between the coxae, and obliquely narrowed 

 behind. Anterior tibiae tridentate ; the exterior ridge witli two 

 projections above the large teeth, inferior ridge consisting of five 

 short projections, the apical plate toothed at the apex ; inter- 

 mediate tibiae strongly serrate, and with an acute spine at the 

 apex externally. 



Length 16, breadth 5 J mm. 



Hah. — Fowler's Bay district. 



A very distinct species ; its afiinity is evidently to Careyium 

 (Chariscapterus) opulens, Sloane, but it is very different in its 

 parallel and elongate form. The "inferior ridge" of the anterior 

 tibiae with strong tooth-like projections, is of a different form to 



