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and crowded together, posteriorly becoming more crowded, 
and losing their (more or less) regular arrangement; inter- 
stices almost impunctate, the sutural and lateral wider than 
the others. Length 7, width 34; variation in length, 
6-8mm. 
Hab.—N.8.W.: Forest Reefs. 
A rather large and very beautiful species; the punctures 
beneath the stripes are larger, more crowded and quadrate 
than in vittata, whilst those outside the stripes (especially 
beyond the middle) are very much smaller; the colour, to a 
certain extent, resembles some of the green-striped varieties 
ef Curtisi, but the two species have little else in common. 
The dark portion of the head varies in extent, and some- 
times has an indistinct bluish or purplish gloss. When seen 
from the sides, the stripes on the elytra lose their bright 
metallic green appearance, and become a decided purple. 
The clothing of the sterna is a very distinctive feature; in 
several other species the flanks of the sterna are feebly 
clothed, but in this species the pubescence is silvery, and 
very distinct. 
CALOMELA JUNCTA, n.sp. 
Clear pale testaceous (almost flavous); antenne (under- 
surface of two basal joints excepted), palpi, and tarsi in- 
fuscate ; each elytron with a narrow metallic-green (slightly 
curved) stripe, commencing on shoulder and conjoined at 
apex ; extreme apex of femora and of tibie feebly infuscate. 
Shape and punctures as in the preceding species, except 
that on the elytra the green stripes only cover three rows of 
large, crowded punctures } the punctures between the stripes 
and sides are as large as (or even larger than) those beneath ~ 
the stripes, but they are not crowded, and are almost 
regular. Length 74, width 32; variation in length, 64-Smm. 
Hab.—N.8.W.: Tamworth, Armidale, Braidwood. 
Decidedly close to the preceding species, but the under- 
surface, head, and scutellum entirely pale; the green stripe 
of each elytron covering only three coarse series of punc- 
tures (instead of at least six), and without silvery pectoral 
clothing ; like that species, however, the green stripes appear 
purplish from the sides. 
CALOMELA PARILIS, n.Sp. 
Testaceous ; antennz (basal joints excepted), apical joint 
of palpi, and the tarsi black or infuscate ; each elytron with 
a wide metallic-green stripe (narrowly conjoined at apex), 
appearing decidedly purple when viewed from the sides. 
