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A^entral segments are very nitid, strongly and sparsely punctulate,. 

 and only thinly pubescent. The middle tibige are very strongly 

 compressed and strongly curved ; much more so than in 

 Z. cyanijiennis. The head is quite four-hfths as wide as the 

 widest part of the prothorax. 



Evidently must stand near to Z. cyanipeiinis, from which it 

 differs in the yellow head nearly as wide as the prothorax, more 

 coarsely sculptured elytra, much more nitid, strongly punctulate, 

 and less 2:)ubescent ventral segments, kc. 



Murray Bridge (South Australia) ; taken by Mr. Tepper. 

 Z. gloriosa, sp. nov. Piceo-brunnea obscure rufescens, elytris 

 antice viridibus postice purpureo-violaceis ; capite antice 

 valde producto subtilius crebrius (disco la3vi excepto) punc- 

 . tulato ; prothorace vix perspicue canaliculato, leviter nee 

 crebre vix subtiliter punctulato, antice rotundato-angustato ; 

 elytris subtiliter sat crebre nee rugulose punctulato. Long., 

 7 1.; lat., 3 1. (vix). 

 Considerably dilated behind. The apical part of the antennse 

 has been broken off the example before me; joint 1 equals 3, and is 

 rather longer than 2 and shorter than 4. The head is more than 

 one-third again as long as at the base it is wide, the front part 

 parallel-sided; the middle of a line joining the base of the head 

 and front of the labrum would fall considerably in front of the 

 antennae ; the labrum is nearly as long as wide, its surface punc- 

 tulate and longitudinally sulcate. The prothorax is slightly 

 wider than long ; its base is truncate, from which the sides diverge 

 very slightly in nearly straight lines to immediately in front of 

 the middle, where they are rounded, and whence they converge 

 in a strong curve to the front, which is al^out half as wide as the 

 base, but viewed from above the sides seem to pass into the front 

 in a continuous curve ; the surface bears no inequalities, except a 

 barely discernible longitudinal furrow, wl ich is abbreviated 

 slightly in front. The puncturation of the elytra is considerably 

 finer and less close than in Z. tricolor, Le Guill., and is not at all 

 rugulose. The prothorax is slightly wider than the head, and 

 scarcely half as wide as the widest part of the elytra. An obscure 

 costa runs obliquely from close within the shoulder to the middle 

 of the disc of the elytra. 



Seems to resemble Z. splendida, Fairm., but that species is 

 said to have a short triangular head, and the prothorax Icevigate. 

 The present species has the head exceptionally elongate — the 

 anterior part being almost absolutely parallel-sided — and the 

 prothorax distinctly punctured. It appears to me structurally 

 nearer to Z. cyanipennis, Pasc, than to any other previously de- 

 scribed species. 



Port Lincoln district ; taken by Mr. J. Anderson. 



