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thorax ; terminal joints not thickened ; thorax about three times 

 as broad as long , wider at the base than at the apex , the an- 

 terior margin concave , the angles not produced ; sides rounded ; 

 surface remotely and not very deeply punctured ; the punctures 

 more closely placed at the sides of a .metallic more or less red- 

 dish cupreous; elytra scarcely wider at the base than the tho- 

 rax, convex, not widened posteriorly, of a dark violaceous pur- 

 plish colour, each elytron with ten dcioply impressed rows of 

 punctures, distinct to the apex, where they join each other; at 

 the sides below the shoulder , a deep transverse depression is 

 placed, a small fovea being also visible at the sides below the 

 middle at the tenth row of punctures ; legs and underside gree- 

 nish cupreous; apex of the tibiae and the tarsi fulvous; claws 

 bilid ; presternum produced anteriorly in an obtuse point , poste- 

 riorly strongly divided. 



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



This is one of the most handsomely coloured species of the 

 present genus, easily recognized by the fulvous antennae and 

 tarsi and the purphsh colour of its elytra. Two specimens were 

 captured, 



12. Stetlxomela, variaiis , n. sp. 



Below fulvous , stained with metallic green ; tibiae , tarsi and 

 antennae, fulvous; above metallic blue or green; head closely, 

 thorax remotely punctured ; elytra regularly punctate-striate , 

 foveolate at the sides. 



Var. below dark fulvous, above obscure piceous. 



Length 2 72 - 4 lines. 



Head very closely and finely punctured at the vertex , ru- 

 gose-punctate at its lower portion ; labrum , palpi and antennae 

 fulvous, terminal joints of the latter rather short, scarcely ex- 

 tending beyond the base of the thorax; the latter very trans- 

 verse, the sides much rounded towards the apex ; anterior margin 

 straight at the middle, posterior one somewhat sinuate; surface 

 very distinctly and rather remotely punctured at the disk, deeply 



