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MiSOPHlirCE GLOKIOSA, 11. Sp. 



Black, parts of aiiteiiiia; obscurely diluted with red. 

 Densely clothed with rounded scales, varying from a dingy 

 sooty-brown to a glittering green, or golden green, or blue, or 

 silver, or gold. 



Eostruin stouter iliaii in the preceding species, but of 

 similar shape and with similar punctures and striae. I'rothorax 

 feebly transverse, sides rather strongly rounded and decidedly 

 diminishing in width to apex, base almost truncate ; punctures 

 concealed. Elytni slightly wider than ^jrothorax, basal two- 

 thirds parallel-sided : striate-punctate, the punctures in striae 

 large and fairly distinct, those of the interstices concealed. 

 Abdomen gently convex in one sex, flattened in middle in the 

 other. Length, I5-2 mm. 



Hab. — Tasmania: Hobart, Launceston, Frankford, Huon 

 River (A. M. Lea). 



The majority of the scales are usually of a more or less sil- 

 very green colour, but with fairly numerous flittering golden 

 scales scattered about, especially on the elytra ; on the elytra 

 also the sooty scales are condensed into a large subapical ill- 

 defined spot on each side ; the basal half of the suture is almost 

 or quite glabrous, and the apical half is always clothed with 

 glittering scales, which are in strong contrast to the scales 

 near them. The lower surface is densely and uniformly cloth- 

 ed, but the scales also vary in colour. Along the middle of 

 the prothorax the clothing is subsetose. 



Variety A. Scales of upper surface mostly sooty ; two 

 longitudinal stripes on prothorax and sides with feebly 

 glistening whitish scales, similar scales forming short lines on 

 the elytra and clothing the suture almost to base, and a sub- 

 triangular space on the sides. 



Hab. — Tasmania: Hobart (one specimen only). 



Variety B. Scales of an almost uniform silvery colour, 

 with a very slight copper}- or bluish gloss, denser on suture, 

 almost to base, than elsewhere. Abdomen sparsely clothed 

 along middle. 



Hab. — New South Wales : Sydney. 



I have seen but one specimen, and have not described it 

 as distinct, as possibly the abdomen has been partially abraded. 



MiSOPHRICE APIONOIDES, n. Sp. 



Of a dingy testaceous-brown; head, base of rostrum, 

 scutellum, suture, a postmedian and an apical spot on elytra. 

 and the sterna black or piceous. Moderately clothed with 

 whitish subsetose scales, becoming denser and more rounded 

 on flanks of sterna than elsewhere. 



