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NOTOCISTELA DISPAE, n.Sp. 



Ovate; liead and prothorax dark bronze, elytra coppery bronze, subnitid; 

 oral parts, antennae and legs red. 



Hiead densely punctate, eyes large, prominent and widely separated, antennae 

 very slender, joints 3-11 subequal in length but slightly successively stouter. 

 Prothorax convex and ovate, truncate at apex and base, all angles rounded off, 

 lateral margins not seen from above, disc very densely and uniformly punctate, 

 without medial line or foveae; very sparsely setose. Elytra convex and narrowly 

 elliptic in c?, wider in ?; of same width as prothorax at base; finely seriate punc- 

 tate, intervals flat, the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th bearing small round setiferous pus- 

 tules, larger and more pronounced towards sides and apex; abdomen spai-sely 

 punctate, tibiae slender, the fore and mid-tibiae of c? armed with a small tooth 

 on inside near middle, post-tibiae straight and unarmed, the front tarsi of (? 

 enlarged. In the S all tibiae unaimed. Dimensions : c?. 6 x 2 mm., ? 9 x 3 mm. 



Hab. — Ooldea, South Australia (Mr. J. A. Kershaw). 



Mr. Kershaw has sent me fomr examples, two of each sex of this species — 

 the third of an interesting genus — which he took in this arid region where, as he 

 says, "evei-y beetle obtained is well earned." It is distinguished from N. tibialis 

 Cart, by colour, size (especially in the mai-ked sexual disparity), antennae, 

 straight post-tibiae of male, the pustulose 1st interval of elytra, inter alia. Types 

 in National Museum, Melbourne. 



