528 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ENTOMOLOGY, NO. XIV., 



parts minutely punctulate; sutural edge cupreous for whole length 

 and ending in a sharp apical spur. Length 9, breadth 3*1 mm. 



Hab.—B.oehuck Bay, N.W.A. (Coll. French). 



Allied to C. rafflesia, Chaud., but at once differentiated from 

 that species by the larger size and more compact shape of the 

 cupreous part of the elytra, which, too, is more strongly punctate, 

 and (w^ith the prothorax and head) of a copper, not greenish, 

 colour; the prothorax is narrower and more convex; the inner 

 ramification of the white margin is at half the length of the elytra, 

 and is merely a deep bay or indentation (directed a little obliquely 

 backwards) into the discoidal cupreous area, not with its inner 

 part forming an elongate lunulate area as in C. rafflesia. The 

 discoidal cupreous area is reduced almost to a millimetre in width 

 in the neck connecting the basal and apical areas (where the two 

 " bays " from the white lateral margins extend towards one 

 another), the apical area is truncated posteriorly about a milli- 

 metre before the apex. 



CiCINDELA AURITA, n.sp. 



Upper surface, including dark part of elytra, coarsely sha- 

 greened; prothorax subparallel and bordered on sides, lightly 

 narrowed to apex, strongly produced backwards in an ear-like 

 process on each side at posterior angles; elytra oval, widely 

 rounded at apex, extreme edge of apex dark and minutely serrate 

 under a lens. Upper surface of an olive-bronze colour, with a 

 greenish tinge, especially on head; elytra with a broad cream- 

 coloured margin extending on to the base on each side and form- 

 ing a humeral lunula, a narrow whitish juxta-sutural vitta uniting 

 with the white apical margin on each elytron, the raised sutural 

 border of each elytron green to the apex; four basal joints of 

 antennae green; mandibles white with the teeth greenish-black; 

 palpi white, infuscate at apex ; under surface metallic green ; 

 femora green, brownish near apex, coxae and apex of abdomen 

 testaceous. 



(J. Head wider than prothorax (2*8 mm. across eyes), vertex 

 not concave between eyes when viewed from behind. Labrum 



