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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN 

 COLEOPTERA. Part xiii. 



By Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S. 



(Plate XX ix.) 



SCARAB^ID^. 



DiPHUCEPHALA TANTILLA, 11. Sp. 



^. Bright metallic-green; sides and tips of elytra, tibiae, and 

 sometimes the tip of pygidium, coppery or coppery-red, antennje 

 (some joints obscurely diluted with redj and tarsi purplish-black. 

 Clothed with short, stout, depressed, whitish setie, becoming 

 stramineous on prothorax and elytra. 



Head with crowded, shallow punctures; clypeus strongly pro- 

 duced in front, the notch deep and almost rectangular, sides 

 almost parallel. Prothorax lightly transverse; with crowded? 

 shallow, reticulate, shagreened punctures; front angles rather 

 acute; disc with a shallow, medio-basal, semi-double impression: 

 lateral impressions deep and traceable almost to middle, the side 

 close to each angulate. Scutell^um fiat and shagreened. Elytra 

 very little wider than prothorax; with irregular rows of moder- 

 ately large punctures; rather coarsely shagreened. Front tibim 

 with subapical tooth rather feeble. Length {$^), 4^-5 ram. 



9. Differs in having the clypeus witii a transverse carina 

 dividing it into two almost equal portions, of which the front 

 one is shining; the tips are also much smaller, and the tarsi are 

 shorter. 



Ilah. Queensland : Blackall Range (H. Hacker's No. 701). — 

 New South VA'ales : Dorrigo (H. J. Carter). 



In Blackburn's table, would be associated with D. pyyma>a^ 

 from which it differs in its smaller size, sparser clothing, and 

 feeble subapical tooth of front tibi;\; ; but regarding the sub- 

 apical tooth as absent, it would be associated with D. parvula, 

 from which it ditfers in its much smaller size, mucli smaller and 



