13(3 Mr. T. D. A. Coekerell— Descriptions and 



Smaller ; clypeus with no raised line ; 

 lateral face-marks very bright chrome- 

 yellow ; tirst r. n. joining first t.-c. 

 (\V. Australia.) coynata, Sm., £ . 



21. Scutellum and postscutellum bright 



chrome-yellow ; mesothorax brilliant 



green ; a yellow spot on pleura behind 



tubercles ; species of Pakeorltiza .... 22. 

 Scutellum and postscutellum each with 



a lateral pale stripe or patch ; head 



and thorax dark green ; abdomen 



purple, with green shades. (Kuianda.) permiranda, Ckll. 

 Scutellum and postscutellum without 



light markings 23. 



22. Clypeus yellow. (Kuranda, Dodd.). . . . parallcla, Ckll., 3 . 

 Clypeus green, with a light median stripe, parallela, Ckll., $. 



23. Tubercles without any light colour; large 



or rather large species (probably all 



Palaorhiza) 24. 



Tubercles with at least a light spot .... 26. 



24. Mesothorax blue ; face marked as in P. 



perviridis reginamm, Ckll. 



Mesothorax green 25. 



25. Face with three yellow stripes ; abdomen 



bright green perviridis, Ckll. 



Median stripe reduced to a spot on lower 



part of clypeus ; abdomen with strong 



purple tints. (Dory, New Guinea.). . imperialis, Sm. 

 Median stripe wholly wanting; abdomen 



dark gr.>en varicolor, Sm. 



26. Face ■without light marks ; very small 



blue species bnudinensis, Ckll. 



Face with light marks 27. 



27. Clypeus wholly dark, no supraclypeal 



'mark ; small species, with fine blue 

 abdomen albonitens, Ckll., $ . 



(P.fljiensis, Ckll., from Fiji, will run here, but it is a large species, 

 14^ mm. long ; it is brilliant steel-blue, with yellow lateral face- 

 marks.) 



Clypeus light or not wholly dark (if nearly 

 all dark, species not smalll 28. 



28. Very small species, with white face and 



large broad supraclypeal mark albonitens, Ckll., <5 . 



Medium-sized or rather large species . . 29. 



29. Mesothorax irregularly punctured, the 



punctures not of the same size; lateral 

 face-marks (very pale yellowish) 

 broad, their inner side strongly arched ; 



abdomen blue disjuncta, Ckll. 



Mesothorax densely, strongly, and evenly 

 punctured 30. 



30. Green species, larger than disjunct? ; 



lateral face-marks narrower than 

 in disjuncta, their inner side not arched ; 

 abdomen green, first two segments 

 strongly punctured varicolor, Sm., J . 



