39')- Records of the S.A. Museum 



9 Differs in being more robust, elytra less narrowed posteriorly, legs 

 somewhat shorter and thinner, abdomen larger, more convex, and with a large, 

 round, deep, apical fovea. 



Hab. South Australia; Port Lincoln (Blackburn's collection), Mount Lofty, 

 Ardrossan (J. G. O. Tepper), Lucindale (B. A. Feuerheerdt and A. M. Lea); 

 Victoria; Coromby, on Acacia farina in January (Tepper), Diamond Creek in 

 March (Aug. Simson ) ; Tasmania; Georgetown (Simson). Type. L 10988. 



At first glance like a small specimen of the preceding species, but prothorax and 

 elytra wider at their junction; prothorax with denser and more sharply defined 

 punctures, and not at all strigose ; the colours are somewhat as in D. ochropns, 

 hut the eyes are clo.ser together, the body is wider, and the punctures are much 

 coarser. The labrum (as on many other species) appears as a bright red protrud- 

 ing tongue ; the red of the legs is sometimes rather dingy ; on some specimens the 

 coppery gloss is more pronovmced than on others, on an occasional female the 

 upper-surface has a slight purplish gloss, one female (from Diamond Creek) has 

 the prothorax, except for the front corners, and elytra, of an almost purplish- 

 blue. The hind tibiae of the male are rather wide at the apex, but the increase in 

 width is quite regular : on the male the distance between the eves is about equal to 

 the length of the basal joint of the antennae, on the female it is about one-fourth 

 more. 



Vars.f A male from Northern Queensland (Blackburn's collection) may 

 represent a variety; it differs in having the eyes a trifle more distant (half-way 

 between those of the sexes of the typical form), the elytra of a very deep violet- 

 l)lue. and the legs entirely dark. Sexes from New South Wales (Barabba and 

 Sydney, Dr. E. W. Ferguson, and Mount Victoria, A. M. Lea) are intermediate 

 between the Queensland and typical specimens, their legs at first glance appear 

 l)lack. but are really obscurely diluted with red, and the eyes are almost as on the 

 types. 



DITROPIDUS MACROPS sp. nov. 



(? Coppery-bronze: labrum, antennae (club sliglitl\- infuscated) palpi and 

 legs (knees and tarsi infuscated) of a rather dingy red, or reddish-flavous. Head. 

 under-surface, and legs with white pubescence. 



Head with rather small punctures ; median line slightly impressed. Eyes 

 close together. Prothorax at apex about as wide as the median length, sides 

 strongly rounded ; with rather small but sharply defined punctures in middle, 

 becoming larger and more crowded on sides. Elytra suboblong ; with rows of 

 fairly large punctures, becoming larger and set in deep striae on the sides. Abdo- 



