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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TIGER-BEETLE FROM 

 NORTH-WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 



By Thomas G. Sloane. 



CiCINDELA GILESI, n.sp. 



Elongate-oval. Glabrous (including sternal side-pieces and 

 posterior coxse), legs (including four anterior coxse) clothed with 

 white hairs. Head, prothorax, and undersurface cupreous (sixth 

 ventral segment in ^ bronzy, in ^ brownish); labrum and base 

 of mandibles lacteous; palpi pallid, apical joint viridescent; legs 

 aeneous, coxfB and apex of femora dark testaceous; front in ^ 

 bright green, in ^ cupreous; antennae with four basal joints 

 cupreous; elytra cream-coloured, with suture and two longitudinal 

 stripes on each elytron cupreous, inner discal stripe uniting with 

 the sutural stripe beside scutellum, and with outer stripe at apex 

 (sutural stripe reaching apex of elytra, discal stripes terminating 

 some distance from the apical margin). 



(J. Head shagreened, 2 "6 mm. across eyss. Labrum truncate 

 at apex; lateral angles rounded; four submarginal setse in a trans- 

 verse row. Prothorax small, broader than long (1"7 x 2*1 mm.), 

 wide across base (2 mm.); sides lightly arcuate on anterior half; 

 apex arcuate (very slightly prominent in middle); base truncate; 

 pronotum depressed, shagreened, transversely impressed before 

 and behind, posterior transverse impression limited at each end 

 by the antebasal nodes; these nodes near basal margin, prominent, 

 obtuse, truncate behind. Elytra oval (6 x 3*5 mm.); each elytron 

 at apex separately roundly produced, a very short mucro at end 

 of suture. 



5. Differs from ^ by the larger size; front cupreous; labrum 

 with a very small triangular prominence on each side of middle- 

 prothorax widest across basal nodes (1"7 x 2"6 mm.), basal nodes 



