508 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTEKA, xi., 



lights, appear to be wrinkled. The prothoracic punctures are 

 coarser even than on the roughly sculptured form of C. ioptera 

 (and, owing to their irregular distribution, they cause the surface 

 to appear subtuberculate in places), but those on the elytra are 

 distinctly smaller. No other species approaching it has been 

 recorded from Queensland, except C. ]ni7ictifrons and C./ugitiva: 

 and it differs from the descriptions of those species in being much 

 larger, more soberly coloured, and markings and punctures 

 different. On the elytra, the suture and a space towards each 

 side are bronzy with a purplish gloss, but, from certain direc- 

 tions, those parts appear obscurely green, and the rest of the 

 elytra of a dingy purple; from certain directions also, almost any 

 part of the prothorax may appear purplish or greenish. 



Calomela regalis, n.sp. 



Brightly metallic, undersurface and legs black, with a bluish 

 or greenish gloss, labrum, parts of base of antennee, parts of 

 palpi, knees and claws obscurely reddish. 



Head with densely crowded punctures, and a distinct median 

 line ; clypeus slightly depressed, suture distinct. Antennse 

 moderately thin, just passing middle coxc«. Prothorax more 

 than twice as wide as long, sides moderatelj^ rounded, and with 

 crowded and rather large punctures, smaller, sparser, and some- 

 what irregularly distributed elsewh«a-e. Elytra, elongate; with 

 numerous rows of not very large but well-defined punctures, 

 larger towards sides and smaller about suture than elsewhere, on 

 apical slope more or less wrinkled. Intercoxal process of ^vro- 

 sternurn grooved towards, and notched at, base. Claws strongly 

 and acutely dentate. Length, 7|-7| mm. 



llab.—n.^.y^.: Whitton (A. M. Lea). 



I previously had identified this, from description, as C. 

 imperialis,'^ and, in fact, the description of that species fits the 

 specimens before me so well, except that they are slightly smaller, 

 and that the prothoracic punctures are rather denser than is 

 suggested by the description (both features commonlj^ variable 



*The position assigned to C. impei'ialis in my table, agrees witli botli 

 that species and the present one. 



