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of narrower and less flattened build and with the head consider- 

 ably more elongate, the base of the elytra margined with green, 

 and the basal two ventral segments much less closely punctulate 

 at the sides. 



Queensland (Mr. Lea). 

 S, subpura, sp. nov. Sat lata, minus convexa ; sat nitida ; 

 violacea, capite prothorace scutelloque aeneis, elytris brunneo- 

 testaceis (basin suturaque anguste, — hac antice paullo magis 

 late, — infuscatis), macula parva nigra transversim ovali com- 

 muni anteapicali notatis, antennis basin versus cyaneis 

 apicem versus aureis ; capite modice producto, sat fortiter sat 

 crebre punctulato, inter oculos (his leviter obliquis) late 

 prof unde concavo ; prothorace quam longiori (et postice quam 

 antice) ut 12 ad 8|- latiori, subgibbo, baud manifeste canali- 

 culato, supra sat fortiter sat sparsim (antice magis crebre, 

 latera versus crebre sat rugulose) punctulato, lateribus minus 

 arcuatis, latitudine majori paullo pone medium sita ; elytris 

 ad basin antrorsum bisinuatim sat fortiter convexis pone 

 medium sat fortiter dilatatis, ad apicem breviter biapiculatis 

 processubus inter se sat approximatis sat aequalibus), striatis, 

 striis subfortiter punctulatis, interstitiis 1° — 3° subtiliter 

 sparsim (ceteris confertim minus subtiliter) punctulatis, 

 interstitiis 1° 3° 5° 7^ 8^ que (7° 8° que antice conjunctis) 

 antice latis tumidis (ut S. ampUpennis, Saund.), aliunde 

 interstitiis antice minus postice magis convexis, angulis 

 humeralibus rectis. Long., 5 1.; lat., 2 1. 

 Should be placed near S. ampUpennis, Saund., from which it 

 differs inter alia multa by the remarkable difference between the 

 puncturation of the nearest three interstices to the suture and 

 that of the other elytral interstices. 



N.S. Wales (in my collection; also taken by Mr. Lea). 



CLERID^. 



MACROTELUS, 



Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., 1901, p. 25. I described a species 

 under the name Elasmocerus picticoUis. Herr. Scheukling 

 (Deutsche Ent. Zeitsch., 1903, p. 12) has displaced the name 

 Elasmocerus in favour of Macrotelus. There seems to be no 

 doubt of the two names being synonyms but Lacordaire rejected 

 the latter as a nom. j^rceocc. on account of Macrotelia having been 

 previously used. I presume that Schenkling regards Macrotelia 

 as a name that does not invalidate Macrotelus, in which I agree 

 with hioi. I regret that I accepted Lacordaire's conclusion with- 

 out weighing his premises and therefore call attention to the fact 

 that the insect referred to above should be known as 

 Macrotelus picticoUis, Blackb. 



