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AXILARA. 



A. siihcostata, sp. no v. Sat lata ; sat nitida ; cupreo-nigra, hie 

 illic obscure cseruleo-micans ; capite postice a?qualiter 

 convexo, striolato-alveolato ; prothorace tumido (fere 

 gibboso) quam longiori minus quam duplo latiori, ut caput 

 sculpturato, postice quam antice sat latiori, lateribus 

 fortiter rotundatis ; elytris longitudinaliter leviter distincte 

 •l-costatis, apicem lateraque versus sat crebre subfortiter 

 granulosis (partibus ceteris obscure squamoso-punctulatis) 

 lateribus postice distincte denticulatis ; corpore subtus 

 antice crasse leviter squamoso-punctulato, abdomine longi- 

 tudinaliter carinulis subtilibus insigni. Long., 31.; lat., \\\. 

 The prothorax is fully as wide as the elytra (to the eye rather 

 wider). The conspicuous (in some lights) blue patches on both 

 upper and under surface, together with the perfectly distinct 

 costa? of the elytra and the ventral segments sculptured with 

 very fine (out not at all close) longitudinal elevated lines, render 

 this a conspicuous species. The prothorax is much less transverse 

 tlian in A. Adelaidff^, Hope ; the ventral sculpture resembles that 

 of A. jylanifrons, Blackb. 



S.A. ; in the South Australian Museum. 



A. soror, sp. no v. Sat lata : subopaca ; nigra vix senescens ; 

 capite linea longitudinali subtili impresso, sat crebre 

 punctulato, puncturis umbiJicatis ; prothorace modice 

 convexo quam longiori fere duplo latiori, crebre transversim 

 striolato-alveolato, leviter canaliculato, postice quam antice 

 sat latiori, lateribus sat fortiter rotundatis; elytris subtiliter 

 granulatis, lateribus postice distincte denticulatis ; corpore 

 subtus leviter subcrasse alveolato-reticulato, segmento ven- 

 trali apicali longitudinaliter carinulis subtilibus insigni. 

 Long., 3| 1. ; lat.', U 1. 

 Differs from the preceding inter alia by the complete absence 



of elytral cost* ; it is much larger than any others of the 



previously described species. 



N. Queensland ; in the collection of C. French, Esq. 



A. angnsta, sp. nov. Parallela ; minus lata; minus depressa ; 

 sat nitida ; ainea ; capite leviter striolato-alveolato, fronte 

 sat late impressa, parte impressa in medio longitudinaliter 

 convexa ; prothorace sat convexo, quam longiori fere duplo 

 latiori, postice quam antice haud latiori, in disco subobsolete 

 latera versus distinct3 striolato-alveolato, margine antico 

 perspicue bisinuato, lateribus leviter arcuatis ; elytris mani- 

 feste transversim rugulosis obscure punctulatis, lateribus 

 postice indistincte crenulatis ; corpore subtus leviter sat 

 crasse striolato-alveolato. Long., 2^1. ; lat., ^1. (vix). 



