BY H. J. CARTER. 89 



considerably enlarged in the male, basal joint of hind tarsi as 

 long as the claw-joint. Dimensions, 10-12 x 5-6J mm. 



Hob. — Kui-anda(Dodd and Tillyard), Mackay and Stanthorpe 

 (Illidge), North Queensland (Melbourne Museum). 



Twelve specimens of this apparently common Queensland insect 

 have been examined (4 males, 8 females), and these differ only in 

 size, colour, and the sexual characters mentioned above. Six of 

 them are more or less purple-bronze with cyaneous reflections on 

 the head and prothorax; the others are chiefly dull green, with 

 some purple or metallic reflections; the colour of the underside 

 and legs also varies from being nearly black, to violet or blue. 

 Types in the author's Coll. 



Hemicyclus flavipes, n.sp. 



Widely ovate, convex, glabrous; head (especially clypeus) 

 metallic, pronotum and elytra nitid bronze-brown, the former 

 with slight coloured reflections; underside metallic bronze with 

 green reflections, epipleurse greenish, labium, palpi, antennae, and 

 legs yellow. 



Head : labrum very prominent, epistoma truncate and closely 

 punctate, space between eyes wider than the apparent diameter 

 of one eye (as seen from above), sparsely punctate, antennae 

 extending beyond base of prothorax, joints 7-11 enlarged, 8-11 

 oval, 11 longer and wider than 10. Prothorax 2^ x 5 mm., widely 

 obliquely emarginate at apex, anterior angles obtuse, sides nearly 

 straight and strongly widening to base, posterior angles acute 

 but slightly rounded at extremity, base bisinuate, explanate 

 margins corrugated and punctate, disc smooth. Scutellum 

 triangular. Elytra : shoulders rounded, wider than prothorax 

 at base, widest behind middle, finely margined, channel widest at 

 shoulder, then gradually narrowing behind and, with the epi- 

 pleurre, abruptly ending before apex. Disc, under lens, seen to 

 be closely set with shallow punctulate impressions, epipleurae 

 wrinkled and sparsely punctate, abdomen with last segment 

 finely punctate; presternum saddle-shaped, rounded behind, flanks 

 of presternum finely striolate. Posterior tarsi with joints 1 and 

 4 of about equal length. Dimensions, 12 x 10 mm. 



