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black, finely punctured ; prothorax metallic green, sometimes blue, 

 slightly corrugated at the side, coarsely punctured at the anterior mar- 

 gin ; elytra rich indigo-blue, with a few scattered pale yellowish hairs; 

 antennas black, the four basal joints and palpi fulvous ; legs testaceous, 

 tibiae and tarsi varied with 'brown ; abdomen, fand sometimes the 

 metasternum, brownish-testaceous. Length 5 lines. 



Eleale [Cleridae]. 

 Newman, The Entom. p. 36. 



Eleale sellata. 



E. ehalybeo-viridis ; prothorace pedibusque nigro-aeneis ; elytris angustis, 

 singula plaga magna elongata, antennisque flavis. 



Hah. Moreton Bay. 



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

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

 transversely corrugated, 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 greyish 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 ; antennas yellow ; eyes brown. Length 4 

 lines. 



Eleale lepida. 



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

 scutelloque fulvis. 



Hab. Moreton Bay. 



Moderately elongate ; head and prothorax thickly punctured, deep 

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

 tured, dark purple-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 frdvous ; eyes black ; antennae yellow ; body beneath 

 coppery, with long greyish hairs. Length 5 lines. 



Eleale simulans. 



E. aureo-viridis, breviuscula ; elytris purpureo-atris fasciis duabus fulvis ; 



scutello concolore. 

 Hab. Moreton Bay. 



Closely resembles the last, but is smaller and proportionably 



shorter, the sides of the elytra parallel, the scutellum black, the eyes 



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



3£ lines. 



