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underside and legs, violaceous blue. All the femora armed with 

 a strong spine. 



New Guinea , Fly River (L. M. D'AIbertis). 



56. Stetliotes Ixirtipes, n. sp. 



Black, Three basal joints of the antennae, fulvous. Thorax 

 finely and closely punctured. Elytra deeply punctale-striate. 

 Upper edge of the femora covered with whitish pubescence. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head deeply excavated above the eyes, remotely punctured. 

 Episteme subquadrate, very finely punctured, its anterior mar- 

 gin concave-emarginate. Antennae longer than half the body, 

 black , 3 lower joints fulvous. Thorax double as broad as long, 

 subcylindrical , closely and distinctly punctured, the punctuation 

 not quite so close and deep on the disk than at the sides. E- 

 lytra very deeply punctate-striate. Femora with an acute and 

 long spine , the upper edge of the 4 posterior ones covered 

 with white silky pubescence; apex of the tibiae and tarsi also 

 pubescent. 



New Guinea, Fly River (L. M. D'AIbertis). 



Easily distinguished from its allied by the pubescence of the 

 femora. 



57. Stetliotes nig-roviridis, n. sp. 



Below and the legs black; antennae fulvous; above metallic 

 greenish-aeneous. Thorax remotely punctured. Elytra deeply punc- 

 tate-striate. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head longitudinally strigoso at the vertex deeply sulcate above 

 the eyes, middle of tiie front with a more or less distinct lon- 

 gitudinal groove; clypeus and lower part of the face distinctly 

 punctured, the former not separated from the latter. Labrum 

 fulvous. Antennae of half the length of the body, fulvous, the 

 second and following joints of nearly equal length. Thorax co- 



