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black, finely pmiftured : prothorax iiK'tallict green, sometimes blue, 

 slightly cornigated at the sich', conr^^ely punftured at the anttn-ior mar- 

 g-in ; elytra rieh indigfo-blne, with a few scattered pale yellowish hairs; 

 antennae blark, the fonr basal joints and palpi t'ulvons ; legs testaceous, 

 tibire and tarsi varied with brown ; abdomen, and sometimes the 

 metasternum, brownish-testaceous. Length 5 lines. 



Eleale [Clerida^]. 

 Newman, The Entom. p. 30. 



Eleale sella ta. 



E. chalybeo-viridis ; prothorace pedibiisque nig-ro-fieneis ; elytris angustis, 

 singula plaga magna elongata, antennisque tlavis. 



Hah. Moreton Bay. 



Rather narrow and subdepressed, covered with long black setose hairs; 

 head with numerous shallow punctures, dark bluish-green ; prothorax 

 transversely coiTugated, brassy-black ; scutellum covered with white 

 hairs ; elytra rather elongate, a little contracted posteriorly, closely 

 and deeply punctured in nearly regular lines at the base, more 

 dispersed towards the apex, which has a slight fringe of grejash hairs, 

 dark steel-blue, each with a long fulvous patch extending from the 

 shoulder to about two-thirds of its length, but not meeting at the 

 suture ; legs brassy-black ; antennae yellow ; eyes brown. Length 4 

 lines. 



Eleale lepida. 



E. aureo-viridis, modice elongata; elytris purpureo-atris, faseiis duabus, 

 scutelloque fulvis. 



Hah. Moreton Bay. 



Moderately elongate ; head and prothorax thickly punctured, deep 

 golden-green ; elytra slightly contracted in the middle, coarsely punc- 

 tured, dark pui'ple-black, — a broad band nearly in the middle, another 

 at the apex, and the scutellum fulvous-yellow ; legs brassy-black, the 

 tibiae more or less fidvous ; eyes black ; antennae yellow ; body beneath 

 coppery, wntli long greyish hairs. Length 5 lines. 



Eleale shnulans. 



E, aureo-viridis, breviuscula ; elytris pui-pureo-atris faseiis duabus fulvis ; 



scutello concolore. 

 Hah. Moreton Bay. 



Closely resembles the last, but is smaller and proportionably 



shorter, the sides of the elyi;ra parallel, the scutellum black, the eyes 



dark blue, the head and legs with a decided bluish tint, &c. Length 



3^ lines. 



