386 Records of the S.A. Museum 



liasal segment ) flavous, Under-surface and legs rather sparsely clothed, head 

 still more sparsely. 



Head with dense and sharply defined punctures, becoming longitudinally 

 confluent about base. Eyes very widely separated. Prothorax about twice as wide 

 as the median length, base not one-fourth wider than apex ; with dense and fairly 

 large punctures, becoming crowded nn sides. Elytra (for the genus) moderately 

 long; with rows of rather large punctures, becoming smaller posteriorly, but on 

 the sides larger and set in distinct striae. Lc</s moderately long, front pair longer 

 than hind ones. Length ( rj <$ ) . 2 -5-2 '8 mm. 



9 nitifers in being more robust, less of elytra dark, and the gloss more 

 purplish than green ; abdomen entirely pale, with a large, round, deep, apical 

 fovea ; and the front legs no longer than the hind ones. 



Hah. Australia (old collection). Type, I. 10962. 



A rather narrow species, with decidedly coarser punctures than usual. The 

 head of the female is badly broken, and the antennae of the male, except the 

 basal joints (which are flavous), are missing. 



DITROPIDUS VARIICOLLIS sp. nov. 



d Head ("muzzle excepted), prothorax (sides narrowly excepted), scutel- 

 lum, and extreme base of elytra, dark coppery-green or bronze; elytra flavous, 

 with a few obscurely infuscated spots ; metasternum, part of prosternum, and most 

 of abdomen, blackish ; rest of under-surface reddish or flavous ; legs flavous. the 

 tarsi infuscated ; antennae flavous, the club infuscated. Under-surface and legs 

 sparsely clothed, the head almost glabrous. 



Head finely shagreened, and with fairly dense small punctures : median line 

 feeble. Eyes widely separated. Prothorax slightly more than twice as wide as 

 the median length, finely shagreened ; with small hut fairly dense punctures in 

 middle, the sides densely and finely strigose. Elytra not much longer than wide ; 

 with series of small, but sharply defined punctures, becoming larger and set in 

 fairly deep striae on the sides ; interstices with very minute punctures. Length 

 {6 9 ), 2 -25-2 -5 mm. 



9 Dififers in being slightly more robust, prothorax dark only at extreme 

 base and for a semi-circular space at apex, under-surface (except for some nar- 

 row sutural parts) entirely reddish, and in the abdomen. 



Hab. South Australia: Port Lincoln (old collection). Mount Lofty (R. J. 

 P.urton), .Adelaide (.\. M. Lea). Type, T. 4431. 



A beautiful species; the elvtra are suggestive of those of D. cornutus. but 

 the head of the male is utterly difi^erent. and the pronotum is distinctly strigose on 



