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Distinguished from the other described species of the genus by 

 its more elongate and parallel form, and its prothorax as wide in 

 front as at the base; also by the impression on the head, wdiich 

 is divided by an obscure longitudinal convexity down the middle ; 

 the hinder ventral segments are almost Levigate, and none of the 

 ventral segments are longitudinally sculptured. 



This species is, perhaps, near A. DeyroUei, Thorns., which, how- 

 ever, is (according to the measurements given) half as wide as 

 long, and is a much smaller insect. M. Thomson's description is 

 quite insufficient for certain identification. 



T ictoria ; in the collection of C. French, Esq. 



A. Iceta, sp. nov. Brevis ; lata ; modice convexa ; sat nitida ; 



obscure tenea, hie illic obscure aureo-vel cyaneo-tincta, ely tris 



sat la?te cupreo-purpureis ; capite a?quali convexo, leviter sat 



crasse striolato-alveolato ; prothorace quam longiori vix 



duplo latiori, in disco vix distincte ad latera sat fortiter 



striolato-alveolato, antice sat angustato, lateribus modice 



rotundatis : elytris sat insequalibus, distincte subtiliter 



granulatis, lateribus postice vix perspicue crenulatis ; 



corpore subtus obscure (prosterni lateribus sat crasse sat 



fortiter) striolato-alveolato, segmentis ventralibus (apicali 



excepto) longitudinaliter carinulis validis insignibus. Long., 



Ul.; lat., |1. (vix). 



A wide, short species, more brightly colored than is usual in 



the genus, and well distinguished by the strong longitudinal 



carinulai of its ventral segments (except the last). It is near 



A. AdelaidrH, Hope, and planifrons^ Blackb., but is distinguished 



from both, in addition to the characters just mentioned, by its 



somewhat less transverse prothorax, the sides of which are much 



less strongly rounded. 



S. Australia ; Lake Eyre basin. 



CISSEIS. 



C dispar, sp. nov. Minus nitida ; supra vix pubescens ; prasina 

 hie illic obscure subaureo tincta, vel tota sordide aureo- 

 olivacea ; capite subtilius minus crebre punctulato, antice 

 late leviter concavo postice subtiliter carinato ; prothorace 

 quam longiori fere duplo (postice quam antice parum) latiori, 

 concentrice subtilius striolato, medio antrorsum sat fortiter 

 producto; scutello plus minus distincte transversim striolato; 

 elytris sat a^cjualiter crebre subtilius leviter punctulatis, plus 

 minus transversim rugatis, lateribus postice subtiliter vel 

 vix distincte denticulatis ; corpore subtus sparsim (abdomine 

 ad latera magis crebre) pubescenti. Long., 31.; lat., 1^1. 

 The color is a dull grass-green, tinged in places with a dead 



brassy-copper tone, which is liable to overspread the whole upper 



