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specimens the rest of the elytral clothing is of an uniform shade of 

 colour-pale green on two, tinged with blue on a third, and white on 

 the other. 



621. ENIOPEA VIRIDISQUAMA n. sp. 



(^. Black; legs and antennae (and occasionally the elytra) more 

 or less distinctly diluted with red. Moderately densely clothed with 

 pale green (or bluish) subsetose scales; feebly variegated with pale 

 brown on the upper surface. 



Rostrum about the length of prothorax, moderately and evenly 

 curved; basal two-thirds with three carinae, of which the median 

 one is very distinct, apical third with very distinct punctures. 

 Prof/iorao? apparently slightly longer tiian wide, sides rather strongly 

 rounded, base not much wider than apex; with dense, round, 

 partially concealed punctures. Elytm elongate-cordate, very little 

 wider than across middle of prothorax, each separately rounded at 

 base, parallel-sided to about the middle; striate-punctate, striae 

 feeble, punctures rather large but partially concealed. Length 2- 

 2 1/2 mill. 



$. Differs from the (^ in having the rostrum slightly thinner, 

 with less conspicuous carinae; and without an exserted pygidium. 



Hab. : N. S. Wales : Forest Reefs (A. M. Lea). 



In general appearance close to tenebricosa, but the bulk of the 

 scales of a decided green or blue (there are 25 specimens before me, 

 all agreeing in this character). 



The femora are generally darker than the tibiae and the club than 

 the rest of the antennae. The prothorax generally has a fairly distinct 

 median line of greenish scales, on each side of which appears a 

 feeble dark stripe, but this appearance is caused more by absence 

 of green scales than by the presence of brownish ones; on the 

 elytra a similar sparseness of scales in places causes an appearance 

 of very feeble spots, but there are really some very feeble spots of 

 brownish scales. In most species of this genus the prothoracic 

 punctures are quite concealed before abrasion, but in the present 

 species many of them are fairly distinct from certain directions. On 

 the third interstice just beyond the middle a very feeble node can 

 generally be seen, but when the darker scales with which it is 

 normally clothed are abraded it appears to vanish. 



622. ENIOPEA NEBULOSA n. sp. 



(/. Reddish-castaneous,scutellum and rostrum sometimes darker, 

 front femora (and sometimes the middle pair) black or blackish in 



