173 



sometimes infuscated in parts. Its prothorax is transversely 

 impressed and elytral clothing short, but without the curious 

 appearance as in rasa. 



TOMYRIS ELEGANTULA, Lef. 



imjjressicollis, Blackb. 



Typical specimens of this species may be readily distin- 

 guished from most species by the conspicuous golden or coppery 

 gloss on the apical portion of elytra, especially along the 

 suture, but the gloss is sometimes rather feeble and is occa- 

 sionally absent. The size is also variable. Both sexes ^63) ^re 

 green, but the male has only the tip of the eleventh joint of 

 antennae black, whereas the female has many of the joints 

 more or less deeply infuscated, with the median joints usually 

 darker than the subapical ones, although the tip of the eleventh 

 is black. 



The species, as such, was unknown to the late Rev. T. 

 Blackburn when he described imjrressicolUs, but subsequently 

 he identified a Tasmanian specimen as elegantula, and this 

 specimen agrees well with two of his own co-types. These 

 have a distinct coppery gloss on the apical portion of the 

 elytra, although in his table they were mentioned as '"entirely 

 green." There are many Australian specimens in the Museum 

 with the gloss quite as pronounced as on Tasmanian ones. The 

 species is widely distributed and common in Tasmania, Vic- 

 toria, and South Australia. 



ToMYRis FOVEOLATA, Baly (formerly Terillus). 



This s|>ecies is rt. dily distinguished from all others of the 

 subfamily by the elytra; these have the interstices elevated, 

 shining, and impunctate, or almost so, but between them are 

 rows of large shallow foveas, varying in shape from irregularly 

 rounded to quadrate or oblong, and usually each separated 

 from the adjoining ones by a transverse ridge at each end : 

 each is also densely punctate and has very short pubescence. 

 The sex of the type was not noted, the two before me (ta,ken 

 at the Swan River by Mr. Carter) are males, and each ha.s a 

 large fovea on the apical segment of abdomen. 



The species was referred to Terillus by Baly, but each of 

 the four hind tibiae has a conspicuous notch near the outer 

 apex, and the species is quite obviously a Tomyris. 



TOMYRIS INSIGNIS, n. Sp. 



PI. viii., fig. 156. 

 (S . Bright metallic golden-green, elytra brassy about 

 apex, labrum and appendages flavous, but eleventh joint of 



^63) I have frequently taken specimens in cop. 



