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the exception of some minute punctures on the apical segment: 

 presternum compressed and subcarinate, its process little enlarged 

 behind or produced in front; intercoxal process widely triangular 

 (like a Gothic arch), legs and tarsi long, anterior tarsi with three 

 basal joints strongly dilated, fourth joint very small; posterior 

 tarsi with basal joint almost as long as the rest combined, joint 

 2 twice as long as 3, claw-joint as long as 2 and 3 combined. 

 Dimensions, 15-18 x 7^-9 mm. 



Hob. - Wollongbar, Richmond River(Mr. R. Helms); Acacia 

 Creek(the author). 



Two specimens in my collection, both male, and a specimen in 

 the Queensland Museum, are the only specimens I have seen of 

 this species, one of which was taken by the author by beating 

 creepers in a dense scrub. It is very like G. imperialis Carter, 

 in colour, form and sculpture; but is much smaller, less convex, 

 with the greatest height at, or rather behind, the middle. Type 

 in the author's Coll. 



Chartopteryx Blackburni, n.sp. 



Elongate, lightly obovate, and little convex; head metallic blue 

 and green with purple reflections, pronoturn brilliant green, elytra 

 blue with suture and sides purplish, sternum iridescent green, 

 legs darker, abdomen reddish with metallic reflections, upper 

 surface sparsely clothed with long, black, upright hairs. 



Head with epistoma rounded and coarsely punctate, forming 

 nearly a right angle with the raised and prominent canthus, 

 forehead wide between eyes, more sparsely and less coarsely 

 punctate than the epistoma; antennae very little enlarged apically, 

 extending considerably beyond the base of thorax, joint 3 as long 

 as 4 and 5 combined, 3-7 subcylindric, 8 much shorter than 7 

 and slightly wider, 2-10 oval, longer than wide, 11 elongate- 

 ovate. Prothorax 3x5 mm., widest at base, length measured in 

 middle, arcuate-emarginate at apex, anterior angles prominent 

 and acute, sides rather abruptly widened at middle, posterior 

 angles produced and acute, lateral border narrow, moderately 

 channelled within, base bisinuate, the whole (including the 

 border) sparsely clothed with setiferous punctures with four 



