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tlie thorax is not mucli narrower than the base (as Sf to 4f) 

 and that the puncturation of the elytra has a tendency about 

 the sides and near the apex to become confluent in a transverse 

 manner. The elytra exhibit in different lights various shades 

 of brassy and pure green color. 



A single specimen was sent to me from Western Australia 

 by E. Meyrick, Esq. 



M. puncticolUs, sp. nov. Augusta, sat elongata ; sat nitida; 

 viridis ; prothorace utrinque cupreo notato ; elytris vitta 

 lata irregulari cupreo-micante a basi media ad apicem 

 attingente, altera marginali, ornatis ; vitta interiori 

 suturam attingente multo ante medium elytrorum, hac 

 vittaque extera ad apicem late conjunctis ; subtus longe 

 albido-pilosa ; capite crebre fortiter punctulato punctis 

 longitudinaliter confluentibus ; prothorace quam longiori 

 paulo plus dimidio latiori, postice quam antice quarta 

 parte latiori, crebre fortiter (ad latera crasse etiam 

 crebrius) punctulato, antice et postice sat evidenter 

 bisinuato, lateribus antice leviter arcuatis postice fere 

 parallelis ; scutello elongato viridi ; elytris pone medium 

 hand dilatatis, apicem versus sat fortiter angustatis, 

 suturam versus sparsim subtilius (latera versus crebrius, 

 fortius, trausversim confluenter) punctulatis, vix evidenter 

 striatis, sutura pone medium et interstitio secundo sat 

 fortiter convexis, lateribus pone medium subtilissime ser- 

 ratis ; prosterno antice ciliato hand declivi ; hoc metas- 

 ternoque in medio crebre fortiter, abdomine crasse 

 squamose, punctulatis. Long. 4fl. 



Allied to M. verna, Hope. The ruddy coppery markings on 

 the thorax and elytra distinguish it at once, but as I have seen 

 only a single specimen I cannot say that these may not be very 

 variable ; the green colour of the scutellum and underside also 

 distinguish it from all the examples I have seen of M. verna. 

 Structurally it differs from that species as follows : — It is an 

 evidently narrower and more elongate insect, the disc of the 

 thorax is much more finely, closely, and deeply punctured ; the 

 scutellum is elongate, the surface of the elytra has even less 

 trace of striation than in 21. verna, and bears a well-defined 

 costa (not far from the suture) which can be clearly traced 

 almost from the base very nearly to the apex, and also an 

 elongate convexity between it and the suture extending from 

 the base for about a quarter the length of the elytra. On the 

 under side the hind body is much more finely, closely, and 

 obscurely punctured, and (unless the specimen I have described 

 is abraded) much less pilose. 



The coppery markings of the upper surface consist of — On 



