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Ipsfchoija."''' 



There are five species before me which I refer to this 

 genus, previously unknown from Australia, but numerously 

 represented in the Malay Archipelago. Its main features 

 appear to be the rostrum long and not gibbous at base, scape 

 extending close to but not reaching tlie eye, front coxae 

 widely separated and the femora grooved and dentate. The 

 species are all of a more or less metallic blue or violet. Three 

 of those noted here frne.^iosfernalis, dcsiderahilis, and J\/nr- 

 le(f(/i ) have the pygidium small but visible, and causing the 

 fifth abdominal segment to appear feebly emarginate at tip : 

 in the others the pygidium is quite concealed and the fifth 

 segment is continuously rounded ; these differences, if the 

 stated characters of the subfamily were strictly adhered to, 

 would divide the si)ecies between two sections, but they are all 

 evidently congeneric. 



The Australian species may be tabulated as follows : — 



Side pieces of mesosterniim practically 



impunctate mesofifernalis. n. sp. 



These parts with larp;e punctures. 



Femora edentate desiderahilis, n. sp. 



Femora dentate. 



Femora partly red frmornfa, Pasc. 



Femora entirely dark. 



Prothorax with minute punc- 

 tures IMacJcnyi, n. sp. 



Prothorax with small bnt nor 



minute punctures (hipVirafn, n. sp. 



Tpsichoea femorata, Pasc.f 

 Two specimens from Kuranda probably belong to this 

 species; they differ from the original description, however, in 

 having only the four hind femora reddish in the middle, in- 

 stead of apparently the whole six. 



Ipsichora mesosternalis, n. sp. 



Of a brilliant metallic blue, antennae almost black. Glab- 

 rous except for a few indistinct setae on legs and apex of abdo- 

 men. 



Head impunctate. Rostrum thin, strongly curved and 

 (including the head) fully twice the length of prothorax ; 

 with distinct (but not dense or coarse) punctures at sides and 

 very sparse ones or absent elsewhere. Scape inserted two- 

 fifths from apex of rostrum ; two basal joints of funicle equal 

 in length. Prnfhorar with sparse and minute punctures. 

 Eh/fra elongate-cordate, outline almost continuous with that 



* Pascoe : Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., xii., p. 58. 

 t I.e. p. 59. 



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