712 



HETEROMERA, ctc. PROM TliOPICAf. AUSTRALrA, 



distinct from all described species, in the combination of short 

 mesosternum, blue surface, and clearly striate elytra. In my 

 Table (These Pi-oceedings, 1915, p. 535) it should stand next to 

 0. hiinetalliciis Cart. Types in National Museum, Melbourne. 



Tarpela Doddi, n.sp. 



Elongate, subnavicular, convex, brilliant violet-purple al)Ove, 

 nicid black beneath, antenna? and tarsi red, legs reddish 



Ifead rather squaie, epistoma truncate, eyes large, reniform, 



impinged on by canthus, and 

 separated by a space less than 

 half the diameter of one eye; 

 forehead closely and coarsely 

 punctate, antennae extending 

 considerably behind the base of 

 prothorax, joints 3-5 subcylin- 

 dric, gradually diminishing in 

 length, 6-10 elongate-obconic, 

 1 1 oblong- ovate. Frothorox 

 (3^x4 mm.), widest at base, 

 sides nearly straight, gently 

 narrowing to apex, anterior 

 angles sharply acute and pro- 

 duced forward and downwartl; 

 base truncate; posterior angles, 

 seen from above, subrectangu- 

 lar, sides deHexed without lateral border, basal border raised, 

 surface rather strongly, irregularly, not closely punctate, medial 

 line clearly marked on basal two-thirds at the bottom of a wide 

 depression. *S'c?<i«/Z?im curvilinear-triangular, punctate. EJyIra 

 slightly wider than the prothorax at base, and nearly thrice'as 

 long, strongly convex with steep apical declivity, and acute 

 depressed apex; striate-punctate, with nine rows of large, irre- 

 gular, rectangular or square, foveate punctures, crenulating the 

 sides of the costate intervals, these punctures obsolete on the 

 apical declivity and subobsolete in the first, or sutural row; a 

 shoit, extra-scutellary ruw of smaller foveie; intervals smooth; 



Text-fi>,'.6. 

 Tarpela Doddi, n.sp. 



