Oenera and Species of Coleoptera. 45 



black, finely punctured ; prothorax metallic green, sometimes blue, 

 slightly corrugated at the side, coarsely punctured at the anteiior mar- 

 gin ; elytra rich indigo-blue, with a few scattered pale yellowish hairs ; 

 antennfe black, .the four basal joints and palpi fulvous ; legs testaceous, 

 tibiae and tarsi varied with ^brown ; abdomen, fand sometimes the 

 raetastennim, brownish-testaceous. Length 5 lines. 



Eleale [Cleridae]. 

 Newman, The Entom. p. 36. 



Eleale sellata. 



E. chalybeo-viridis ; prothorace pedibusque nigro-feneis ; elytris angustis, 

 singula plaga magna elongata, antennisque flavis. 



Hub. Moreton Bay. 



Rather narrow and subdepressed, covered with long black setose hairs; 

 head ^vith numerous shallow punctiu'es, dark bluish-green ; prothorax 

 trans-\-ersely corrugated, brassy-black ; scutellum covered with white 

 hairs; eh-tra rather elongate, a little contracted posteriorly, closely 

 and deeply punctured in nearly regidar lines at the base, more 

 dispersed towards the apex, which has a slight fi'inge of greyish hairs, 

 dark steel-blue, each with a long fulvous patch extending from the 

 shoulder to about two-thirds of its length, but not meeting at the 

 suture ; legs brassy -black ; antennae yellow ; eyes brown. Length 4 

 lines. 



Eleale lepicla. 



E. aureo-viridis, modice elongata ; elj-ti'is purpureo-atris, fasciis duabus, 

 scutelloque fulvis. 



Hab. Moreton Bay. 



Moderately elongate ; head and prothorax thickly punctured, deep 

 golden-gi-een ; ehi:ra slightlj' contracted in the middle, coarsely punc- 

 tiu'ed, dark purple-black, — a broad band nearly in the middle, another 

 at the apex, and the scutellum fidvous-yellow ; legs brassy-black, the 

 tibite more or less fidvous ; eyes black ; antennae yellow ; body beneath 

 coppery, with long greyish hairs. Length 5 lines. 



Eleale sinndaiis. 



E. aureo-viridis, breviuscula ; elytris purpureo-atris fasciis duabus fulvis ; 



scutello concolore. 

 Hab. Moreton Bay. 



Closely resembles the last, but is smaller and proportionablv 



shorter, the sides of the elytra parallel, the scutellum black, the eyes 



dark blue, the head and legs with a decided bluish tint, kc. Length 



3a lines. 



