78 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN AMARYGMIDES, 



described as "approximate" (which certainly they are not in the 

 specimens before me) and the seriate punctures as "rather fine" — 

 a description that would have been quite insufficient if Mr. Pascoe 

 had been dealing with the present insect. This species also 

 resembles C. Icevicollis, Blessig (which I take to be identical with 

 ccelestis, Pasc), but differs from it by its much more widely sepa- 

 rated eyes devoid of ocular sulci, its non-trapezoidal prothorax, 

 anfl the much finer seriate punctures of its elytra. 

 N.S.W. ; Hunter R. district ; sent by Mr. Masters. 



C. PULCHER, sp.nov. 



Elongato-ovalis, minus nitidus ; niger, prothorace Isete cseruleo, 

 elytris cseruleis purpureo tinctis ; capite subtiliter sat crebre 

 punctulato ; oculis quam antennarum articnli basalis longi- 

 tudine fere magis inter se remotis ; sulcis ocularibus nullis ; 

 antennis corporis dimidio longitudine sequalibus, apicera 

 versus baud incrassatis, articulo 3° quam 1"^ 2"^que conjuncti 

 sat longiori quam i^^ 5^^que conjuncti vix breviori, articulis 

 apicalibus quam prsecedentes fere Jongioribus ; prothorace 

 quam longiori fere dimidio (postice quam antice plus quam 

 duabus partibus) latiori, subtilissiuie distincte sat crebre 

 punctulato, antice vix emarginato, a basi antrorsum (superne 

 viso) arcuatim angustato, basi media sublobata, angulis omni- 

 bus (superne visis) obtusis ; elytris sat fortiter seriatim 

 punctulatis (fere ut C. amethystin% Fab.), interstitiis planis 

 vix perspicue punctulatis ; prosterno medio antice carinato ; 

 corpore subtus quam supra multo magis nitido, vix perspicue 

 punctulato, obscure rugato; femoribus anticis antice distincte 

 minus sparsim punctulatis ; tarsis subtus fulvo-setosis, posti- 

 corum articulo basali quam ceteri conjuncti pauUo breviori. 



[Long. 6, lat. 3 lines. 

 This species is so remarkably like C. ametliystinus, Fab., that I 

 should regard it as a black-legged variety of that insect were it 

 not for the bright fulvous vestiture of the underside of its tarsi 

 and the puncturation (very obsolete, but quite traceable) of its 

 elytral interstices. Its eyes are about as far apart from each 



