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With rather vague depressions on the prothorax as on 

 curnowi, but readily distinguished from that species by the 

 rows of conspicuous hairs on the elytra. The five specimens 

 from Kangaroo Island are all females. Two specimens 

 mounted, as sexes, on one card (but not marked as having^ 

 . been taken in cop.) were sent by Mr. Goudie ; of these the 

 female agrees perfectly with the Kangaroo Island ones, but 

 the male *^'** differs in being of a vivid g6lden-green, slightly 

 smaller and narrower, prothorax somewhat longer, with more 

 rounded sides, abdomen more convex and with a circular 

 apical fovea; it differs from the male of viridida and of 

 elegant Ilia in being narrower and less compact, eyes rather 

 more prominent, and longer hairs on elytra more conspicuous; 

 the prothoracic punctures are much denser than on exilis, 

 and it is rather more compact than that species ; the long 

 hairs on the elytra distinguish it from foveivenfrh. 



TOMYRIS SUBLAETA, n. Sp. 



cf . Bright golden-green ; labrum and appendages (tip 

 of antennae excepted) flavous. Densely clothed with short 

 depressed pubescence, the elytra in addition with rows of 

 longer suberect hairs. 



Head with very dense, subasperate punctures. Antennae 

 long and thin. Protho?'ax with rather strongly rounded 

 sides, with a shallow transverse depression on each side of 

 middle ; punctures slightly larger than on head and indi- 

 vidually distinct. Elyti'a shagreened, but with punctures 

 (although very small) moderately well-defined posteriorly. 

 Fourth segment of abdomen flattened in middle, fifth with 

 a wide shallow and somewhat irregular depression, the derm 

 there darker than that of the adjacent parts. Length, 

 5 J mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Blue Mountains (H. J. 

 Carter). Type (unique), I. 3623. 



Of the size and at first glance the appearance of laeta, 

 but rather narrower, prothorax with transverse depressions 

 and less crowded punctures, most of which are individually 

 distinct, elytra with pubescence less dense and mixed with 

 longer hairs, and notches of hind tibiae longer and shallower. 

 Its much greater size readily distinguishes it from the males 

 of elegantula, viridis, soror, etc. From fepperi it differs in 

 being considerably larger, femora much stouter, and pro- 

 thoracic punctures clearer; from the presumed male of that 



(64) Its position in the table would associate it with fepperiy 

 and I believe it belongs to that species. 



