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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TIGER-BEETLE FROM THE 

 NORTHERN TERRITORY. 



By Thomas G. Sloane. 



CiCINDELA ^NEODORSIS, ll.sp. 



Allied to C. aurita Sloaiie. $. Oval, convex, glabrous (in- 

 cluding sternal sidepieces and posterior coxtc); prothorax with a 

 stout, obtuse, subprominent, antebasal node on each side. Head, 

 prothorax, disc of elytra and undersurface cupreous; ventral seg- 

 ments 1-5 with fiery reflections, sixth ventral segment testaceous; 

 elytra with a lacteous margin (except beside scutellum), this 

 margin narrow on sides of base, becoming wider backwards from 

 shoulder to apex (thus causing the cupreous discal ai'ea to be 

 triangular in shape), sutural and apical border metallic; labrum 

 and base of mandibles lacteous; palpi pallid with apex viridescent; 

 antennae with two basal joints green, third and fourth joints 

 testaceous towards base, green at apex, joints 5-11 light brown 

 with pale pubescence; coxte and tibife testaceous, apex of tibise 

 viridescent, tarsi with joints 1-4 testaceous (apex viridescent), 

 fifth joint dark with virescent tinge. 



Head wide (3 '5 mm. across eyes), coarsely shagreened, longi- 

 tudinally striolate and lightly concave between eyes. Prothorax 

 very coarsely shagreened, broader than long (2*15 x 3*1 mm.), 

 hardly wider at middle than at posterior nodes (3 mm.), con- 

 stricted anteriorly by the strongly marked transverse line, rather 

 depressed on disc, lightly declivous to sides; posterior transverse 

 line defining a depressed basal area, lightly marked; sides strongly 

 ampliate behind anterior transverse line, subparallel (a little 

 rounded) towards posterior nodes; apex with a well-marked 

 border; posterior nodes a little before the base, wide, obtuse, a 

 little prominent, not directed backwards. Elytra oval (75 x 4'7 

 mm.); discal metallic area strongly and deeply punctate, the 



