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with the angles not projecting outwards: in my table it would be associated with 

 li. palUdula, which has the sides of the prothorax rather strongly rounded, and 

 the disc with distinct punctures. 



EDUSA SUTURALIS Chp. 



Five females, from Kulpara (South Australia), have the elytra (except as 

 to their clothing) entii-ely black. 



EDUSA SERICEA Lea. 



A. specimen, from Beverley (Western Australia), is of a beautiful golden-red, 

 its elytra in some lights have a purplish gloss, and on each several purplish-blue 

 lines may l)e seen through the ]')ubescence. 



EDUSA MULTICOLOR sp. nov. 



$ Coppery-green, most of elytra golden-red or golden-purple, under-surface 

 bronzy, tibiae, basal joints of palpi and basal half of antennae more or less 

 reddish. Head, sides of prothorax, under-surface and legs with fairly dense, 

 white pubescence, elytra with stouter but sparser clothing. 



Head shagreened and Avith fairly dense punctures; median line shallow at 

 base, fairly deep and triangularly dilated in front. Antennae rather long. Pro- 

 thorax about twice as wide as long, sides evenly rounded ; with fairly dense, 

 subasperate punctures, in places transversely confluent. Scutellum with numerous 

 Junctures. Elytra with dense punctures, on basal- half mostly transversely con- 

 fluent. Abdomen with basal segment glabrous and finely striated in middle, fifth 

 almost simple. Femora stout, front pair acutely dentate; basal joint of all tarsi 

 somewhat inflated ; hind tibia.e dilated at apex, apical slope bisinuate, inner edge 

 straight. Length, 7^■'^-l mm. 



9 Differs in being larger and wider, much less of upper-surface green, 

 antennae and legs shorter, abdomen with less of basal segment glabrous, and the 

 fifth simple and less encroached upon by pygidium. 



Hob. Victoria: Sea Lake (J. C. Goudie, No. 769). Type, L 11987. 



A beautiful species, in appearance rather close to E. diversieoJUs, but h'ss 

 elongate and hind tibiae of male with the inner edge straight, and scarcely 

 different from that of the female. On the male a fairly large subtriangular space 

 about the scutellum is greeii, the colour then changes, through various golden 

 shades, till on the sides and apex it becomes a beautiful purple, the sides of the 

 prothorax also have a purplish gloss; the female is mostly golden, on the head 

 the only parts green are the clypeus and labrum, the scutellum and the suture 

 for a short distance behind it are green ; more of the elytra is purple than on the 



