274 THE INSECTS OF GAYNDAH, 



broad orange fascia above the middle and a minute apical spot of 

 white hair. Under side of body thickly clothed with white hair. 

 Legs cyaneous. 



545. — Eleale apicalis. n. sp. 

 Length 5 lines. 

 Elongate, nitid, densely punctate. Head and thorax of a 

 bronze hue, the latter flat on the back, rugosely and transversely 

 punctate, longer than the width, constricted and transversely 

 impressed near the apex and narrowed at the base. Elytra 

 coarsely and irregularly punctate with three slightly raised lines 

 on each, and of an orange yellow colour with the apex black. 

 Body beneath dark blue or purple with metallic reflection, and 

 spotted with tufts of white hair. Antenna yellow. 



546. — Eleale elongatula. n. sp. 

 Length 5 lines. 

 Of more elongate form than E. aspera Newm. and densely 

 and coarsely punctate. Head and thorax greenish blue, the 

 latter purple on the sides, twice longer than the width and cylin- 

 drical. Elytra about four times longer than the width, and of a 

 golden green with a broad purple lateral margin. Legs of a 

 purple red. Body beneath spotted with tufts of pale pubescence. 

 Antennre reddish brown, the apical joint deeply emarginate at 

 the inner angle. 



547. — Eleale viridicollis. n. sp. 



Length 3^ lines. 

 This species difi'ers from the last in being much smaller, in 

 having the head and thorax golden green, and the latter less 

 elongate and less cylindrical, in having the elytra entirely of a 

 dull purplish green, in having the under portion of the body 

 thickly clothed with white hair, but without the white spots of 

 the other, and in having the last joint of the antennae more 

 largely but less deeply emarginated. 



