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than any other part o£ the tarsus) are characters which, taken 

 together, will distinguish it from all its Australian allies. 



A. Adelaides, Hope. I have examples, taken near Adelaide, 

 of an insect which agrees very well with the description of 

 this species. It is the only Anilara known to me with an im- 

 pressed longitudinal line on the vertex. The type must have 

 been a very small specimen (li 1.). Those I have seen vary 

 from 1-|^ 1. to 2 1. in length. 



A. planifrons. Minus lata ; renea ; sat rugose nee profunde 

 punctulata ; prothorace fortiter transverso, elytris latiori. 

 Long, li 1., lat. I 1. 



This minute Buprestid is of a blackish-brassy colour, with 

 the head and pro thorax a little coppery. The head is evenly 

 convex, and is covered not very closely with moderately large, 

 round shallow punctures, which seem to be of a dull whitish 

 colour within, as though they contained a small scale or 

 granule, a similar system of puncturation (rather coarser how- 

 ever) extending to the sides of the prothorax, but becoming 

 obsolete towards the disc where the sculpture consists of 

 scratchy wrinkles, the actual centre space being nearly Isevi- 

 gate in most specimens. The prothorax has strongly-rounded 

 sides, and is widest a little behind the middle, w^here it is 

 wider than the elytra ; across the base it is just twice as wide 

 as down the middle it is long, and something less than twice 

 as wide as its front margin ; the base is truncate, or rather 

 slightly concave all across, causing the posterior angles to 

 seem a little produced backwards ; these latter are acutely 

 rectangular, the anterior angles acute, but not conspicuous, the 

 anterior edge shallowly emarginate. The scutellum is roundly 

 triangular and not very small ; the front margin of the elytra 

 does not project forward at all beyond it. The sculpture of 

 these latter is very obscure ; near the suture it is sparing 

 puncturation, which is very fine in front and becomes coarser 

 hindward; the lateral portions seem to be very coarsely 

 coriaceous, and without defined punctures. On the underside 

 the sterna are set laterally with large punctures similar in 

 character to those on the head, and are smooth in the middle, 

 while the sculpture of the hind body consists of long fine lines 

 running longitudinally. 



The evenly convex head and curiously sculptured hind body 

 will readily distinguish this species from A. Adelaide, Hope. 

 I cannot discover any distinct thoracic margin in this species ; 

 in A. Adelaides there is a very fine thread-like one which, how- 

 ever, runs entirely on the under surface, but keeps parallel to 

 the edge. 



I obtained a few specimens of this insect by beating 

 Eucalyptus near Wallaroo. 



