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men sloping to base and apex, with a shallow depression on the apical segment. 

 Lrgs moderately stmit. front ones slightly longer than hind ones. I^ength, 2-2 "5 

 mm. 



Hab. Australia (old collection): .South .Australia: Port Lincoln (Black- 

 burn's collection). Type. I. 1085 1. 



The abdomen of each specimen has a shallow rounded depression, birt it is 

 yery difYerent to the fleep foyea of undoulited females of the genus ; the abdomen 

 otherwise, the eves and front legs, are all typically masculine. In general appear- 

 ance they are like small specimens of the precefling species, but the eyes are much 

 closer together (less than half of the length of the basal joint of the antennae 

 separating them, on the males of that species they are as far apart as 

 the length of that joint), the elytra are also more oblong, and the abdo- 

 men is diiTerent. Two males from Brisbane appear to belong to the 

 species, hut have the upper-surface shining black, with hardly any metallic gloss, 

 their hind femora are also deeply infuscated. The only female I have seen, that 

 probably belongs to the species, differs from the males in having the eyes fully 

 twice as widely separated, legs somewhat shorter and thinner, the front ones no 

 longer than the'hind ones, and the abdomen larger and more convex, with a large, 

 round, deep, apical fovea. 



DITROPIDUS PUNCTIPENNIS sp. nov. 



c? Greenish-bronze: labrum. antennae (club infuscated) palpi and legs 

 (claws and hind femora lightly infuscated!. of a rather dingy flavous. Head, 

 under-surface, and legs with white pubescence. 



Head shagreened, and with small dense punctures ; median line narrow and 

 distinct. Eyes close together, Prnthorax at apex about as wide as the median 

 length: a marginal row of distinct punctures on each side, elsewhere with sparse 

 and \er\ minute punctures. Elxtra not much longer than wide: with rows of 

 large punctures, at the sitles scarcely larger hut set in deep striae. Tibiae com- 

 paratively thin, the front ones slightly longer than the others. Length ( S 9 )> 

 2-2 '5 mm. 



9 Differs in being more robu.st, with a decided coppery gloss, prothorax 

 shorter, elytra less narrowed posteriorly, legs shorter, the front ones no longer 

 than the hind ones, and abdomen larger, with a large, round, deep, apical fovea, 



Hab. ^^'estern Australia: British Museum (F. du Boulav), Mullewa 

 (W. D. Dodd and A. M. Lea). Type, I. 10922, 



In general appearance fairly close to the preceding species, and with similar 

 eyes, but at once distinguished by the prothorax, this at first appears to be without 



