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tion of a dorsal channel a little in front of the base, and with a 

 distinct round piceous discal blotch on either side a little in front 

 of the middle. The elytra are closely subrugosely and rather 

 finely punctured, the punctures much mixed up with a system of 

 reticular wrinkling. The upper surface (saving some hairs on the 

 labrum) is glabrous. The underside is distinctly, though rather 

 lightly and squamosely, punctured ; the metasternum bears a 

 short erect closely-set pile. The claws are red. The middle tibi^ 

 are strongly, almost angularly, bent (perhaps in the male only). 

 The hind body is piceous, but bears a yellow patch (successively 

 larger on each segment from the base) on either side of each seg- 

 ment. In the male the ventral segments are carinate all down 

 the middle. 



This species should fall, I think, into M. Fairemaire's first 

 division of the genus, and will be the only species therein yet 

 described having unicolorous blue elytra ; its short thick antennae 

 also will distinguish it. A very old and faded example in the 

 South Australian Museum seems to be identical, although the 

 black spots on the head and pi'othorax are wanting. 

 Port Lincoln. 



Z. cyanipennis, Pasc. The description of this species occupies four 

 lines in the "Journal of Entomology." True, it is accompanied by 

 an uncoloured figure, but, unfortunately, the figure appears to have 

 been taken from a specimen with its head tucked down among the 

 sterna, and gives little information beyond what the brief des- 

 cription furnishes ; indeed, it rather presents a contradiction, for 

 whereas the size given after the description is 61., the indicator 

 in the plate gives 4| 1., M. Fairemaire has provided a fuller des- 

 cription of an insect in his collection which he alleges (without 

 specifying his authority) to be cyanipennis^ Pasc, and gives its 

 length as 8 J mm., which means, I suppose, 4 J 1. I think 

 M. Fairemaire's identification is possibly incorrect, both because 

 he describes the colour (which appears to me remarkably constant 

 in the metallic Zonites) differently from Mr. Pascoe, calling the 

 elytra " blue-green " instead of " dark indigo-blue ;" and because 

 he says that the humeral calli are almost Itevigate, which (if my 

 identification of Z. cyanipennis is correct) certainly is not the 

 case. Mr. Pascoe makes no allusion to the puncturation of any 

 part of cyanipennis, so this important character gives no assist- 

 ance. I have before me two specimens from Melbourne (the 

 locality of the original type) coloured as cyanipennis is said to be, 

 except in having tlie mesothoracic epimera yellow (of the length 

 6 1.). One of these — a female — agrees with Mr. Pascoe's figure 

 in the shape of the elytra at the apex. Tlie other (length, 4 1.) is 

 a male, and seems perfectly identical with the larger specimen, 

 except in respect of what appear to be sexual characters, viz., 



