Coleojitemii.-s Famih/ (.'leriil*. 85 



evenly rounded. Elytra at their base fully twice the width of 

 thorax, a little narrowed below the shoulder, with rows of trans- 

 verse rather obsolete punctures, which reach neither the base n(U' 

 the ajtex, the base itself is smooth, a little tumid near the 

 scutellum, this portion is bluish encirclecl by crimson copper 

 shading off into brilliant golden and finally blue, the sanu^- 

 colours being repeated in inverse order beyond a median purple 

 fascia, which is much widened at the margin and suture. Under- 

 side blue, abdomen black. Antennae and palpi testaceous, legs 

 blue, tarsi pitchy, anterior pair fuscous red. 



Hab. Rockhampton, (Queensland. In most collections. 



r>/w. This species is sometimes wrongly referred to Nccrohia 

 exintia, White, Auliens- splevdidvs, Chev., Eev. et. Mag. de 

 Zool. 1874 ]i. 15 seems to me to be the same. It differs a little 

 in facies from typical species of the genus, especially in the pro- 

 thorax less widened, and with a rectilinear constriction in front. 



Aiillriis alho-faxi-hitiiK, n. sp. 



Xiger, subtus viridi-c;eruleus, capite et thorace crebre punc- 

 tatis, elytris fortiter punctato-striatis, ante medium albo-fasciatis, 

 apice ferrugineo, laivi, antennis, palpis, tarsistpie anticis testaceis. 

 Long. lin. vix 4. 



Above black, scarcely shining, lu)dy beneath antl legs bluish 

 green, anterior tarsi testaceous, middle and liind i)airs ])itchy 

 above. Thorax with the siiles rounded, widest in the middle, 

 moderately depressed on the disc. Klytra widest at the base, 

 thence narrowed gradually t(i near the apex, with about 10 

 series of large square punctures vanishing just before the rusty 

 yellow a])ex ; a little bcfcu'e the middle is a nearly straight white 

 fascia, intcrrujitiMl by tlic sutiual stria wliich is pitchy through- 

 out. 



Hab. liockliam])ton. (^)uccnslaud. 



AiilicK^ s)i)ar'n/(/ //)//.•<, n. sp. 



\'iridis, nitidus, (■a])it(' tliorac(M|U(' s))arsim punctulatis, elytris 

 fortiter punctato-striatis, puin'tis transverso-([uadratis, ante 

 apicem evanescentibus, antennis, palpis, pedibuscjuc rutis, gciuilms 

 intermediis et posticis piccis. Long. lin. 2|. 



