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Ilah. Australia, Somerset, January (L. M. D'Albertis). 



Allied to C. elegans Baly, but separated by the uniform me- 

 tallic green upperside , the fulvous legs and tarsi and the finely 

 punctured thorax. 



2. OolaspoidLes nig' x'i tars is, n. sp. 



Oblong , piceous or black below ; basal joints of antennae and 

 the legs , fulvous ; above dark aeneous. Thorax closely punctured. 

 Elytra deeply semipunctate-striate, the interspaces transversely 

 rugulose, costate at the apex. Tarsi black. Femora unarmed. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head rather finely and closely punctured with a distinct cen- 

 tral longitudinal groove ; clypeus not separated from the face , 

 triangular, its surface punctured like the head, the anterior 

 margin nearly straight; labrum fulvous; antennae nearly two 

 thirds the length of the body, four lower joints, fulvous, the 

 rest black. Thorax more than twice as broad as long , sides re- 

 gularly rounded and slightly narrowed anteriorly , surface clo- 

 sely and rather regularly punctured, the punctures of a more 

 elongate shape at the sides, where the interstices are also 

 slightly rugose. Scutellum small, impunctate. Elytra elongate, 

 moderately convex , strongly punctate-striate anteriorly near the 

 suturai margin , the rest of the surface very strongly transver- 

 sely rugulose and longitudinally costate towards the apex; the 

 extreme lateral margin is greatly deliexed, so as to be invisible, 

 when the insect is viewed from above. 



Sumatra, Mount Singalang, July 1878 (0. Beccari). 



Allied to C. viridana Baly, but separated by the dark aeneous 

 colour and that of the antennae, legs and labrum and the want 

 of the elytral basal depression. 



3. Colasposoma veg'ulai'is , n. sp. 



Subquadrate-ovate , below piceous; above metallic cupreous 

 or dark blue; base of the antennae obscure fulvous; thorax fi- 



