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upper part of tlie face ; eyes prominent, subrotundate, distinctly 

 notclied ; antennse lialf the length of the body, filiform, six lower 

 joints pale piceous, the five outer ones uigro-piceous. Thorax 

 about one half broader than long; sides rounded, converging in 

 front; above convex, coarsely punctured, rugose, impressed on 

 either side with a large deep fovea ; on the middle of the disk is 

 a slightly raised, ill-defined, smooth and shining trifid patch, 

 and in front of this are six small, shining, impunctate spots, 

 arranged in a transverse curve. Scutellum broader than long, 

 its apex broadly rounded, its surface glabrous, finely but not 

 closely punctured. Elytra broader than the thorax, oblong, at- 

 tenuated at the apex, the latter conjointly subangulate ; above 

 convex, coarsely and closely punctured ; interspaces irregularly 

 thickened, transversely strigose on the anterior disk ; on each 

 elytron are four or five raised, smooth and shining vittge, only 

 slightly elevated and ill-defined on the anterior disk, interrupted 

 towards the apex and forming short, strongly-raised ridges ; on 

 each elytron below the basilar space is a large deeply-excavated 

 fovea. 



Genus G-elopteea, Baly. 



GrELOPTEUA igneo-nitens. Oblonga, convexa, subtus picea, 

 seneo-tincta ; supra senea, rufo-aureo tincta, antennis nigris, basi 

 piceis ; thoracecrasse,irregulariter punctato,lateribus tridentatis ; 

 elytris sat profunde confuse punctatis, puuctis ad apicem minus 

 fortiter impressis ; interspatiis transversim rugosis, apicem versus 

 magis elevatis et longitudinaliter subcostatis. Long. 3|-5 lin. 



Hah. Western Australia. 



Head cupreo-igneous, rugose-punctate, front impressed with 

 a fine longitudinal groove ; clypeus wedge-shaped, well defined, 

 its surface less closely and less coarsely punctured than the rest 

 of the head ; antennse equal to the body in length in the male, 

 shorter in the female, filiform, not thickened towards the apex, 

 third and fourth joints each twice the length of the second, equal ; 

 four lower joints piceous, the rest black. Thorax more than twice 

 as broad as long; sides rounded, tridentate, the anterior border 

 narrowly, the hinder one broadly margined ; above convex, coarsely 

 and irregularly punctured, the punctures less crowded on the 

 disk ; whole surface deeply tinted with coppery red. Scutellum 

 semiobloug-ovate. Elytra broadly oblong, much broader than 

 the thorax, coarsely and irregularly punctured, the punctures 



