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The tubercles, of which there are about 386 on each 
elytron, may be regarded as being in five irregular rows 
on each, the rows being in places irregularly doubled and 
they appear to be always slightly different m disposition ; 
although very conspicuous they are not much elevated 
above the general surface; they have punctures as the rest 
of the elytra but are not shagreened. 
A lovely insect which has been obtained on the summits 
of several mountains in Tasmania. Mr. Aug. Simpson has 
one specimen probably from Ben Lomond. My own was 
obtained on the summit of Mount Wellington in January 
1904, under a deeply buried stone; fragments are numerous 
there, but although both Mr. Griffith and myself repeatedly 
searched for it there we never succeeded in taking more 
than one living specimen. For years we have been in the 
habit of referring to this species as “Simpson’s beauty.” 
PEDILOPHORUS DIVES, n. sp. 
Of a metallic coppery green, tubercles coppery purple, under- 
surface black, appendages dull red, tarsi paler. Under-surface and 
appendages with very fine pubescence, elsewhere glabrous. 
Head very widely rounded in front, immediately behind which is 
an irregular transverse impression; surface with short ridges and 
granules. -Antennx short, third joint thinner than and more than 
twice the length of second. Prothorax very strongly convex, densely 
covered with short ridges. Scutellwm minute. lytra strongly 
convex, with numerous small granules, and each with four somewhat 
irregular rows of strongly elevated tubercles, epipleura narrow and 
strongly narrowed at hind coxe. Sterna with dense and coarse 
punctures ; abdomen with sparser, smaller, and more irregular 
punctures. Length 4 mm. 
Hab, TASMANIA: Frankford (in moss). 
The prothoracic ridges on the sides are more or less 
parallel with the sides, but elsewhere they are very irregular 
in direction, except that from two points they appear to 
radiate like the spokes of a wheel. The elytral tubercles 
are usually somewhat elongated, those of the two sutural 
rows are largest, the sutural row extends almost to the 
apex where it joins in with the third row; the second row 
terminates at about one-third from the apex, the outer 
row consists of little more than tubercular swellings. of the 
