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of clypeus green; antennae shorter, many of the joints 

 (including the upper-surface of the first) infuscated, abdomen 

 more convex, the fifth segment lightly notched in middle of 

 apex, and the legs somewhat thinner. 



Hah. — Tasmania: Hobart (Blackburn's collection and 

 A. M. Lea), summit of Mount Wellington, Huon River 

 (Lea); Victoria: Dividing Range (Blackburn), South 

 Wandin, Monbulk (H. H. D. Griffith, from E. Jarvis). 

 Type, I. 3147. 



A rather long and thin species whose sexes (I have 

 taken specimens in crrp.J vary in colour as those of viridiila, 

 but readily distinguished from that species by the much 

 narrower form, prothorax with decidedly coarser punctures, 

 and with the depression different. With the antennae con- 

 cealed some m.ales at first sight have a curious resemblance to 

 some of the smaller species of Leviidia (of the Cleridae). Some 

 males are decidedly more golden than green, but the females 

 are all more or less brassy, or brassy-purple. One female has 

 the base of the head and most of the prothorax of a beautiful 

 purple. Another (in Mr. Griffith's collection) has the 

 antennae conspicuously infuscated in the middle, but with 

 the first and eleventh joints also partly infuscated. 



TOMYRIS FEMORALIS, n. Sp. 



9 . Brassy or bronzy, under-surface with a vague 

 greenish gloss; labrum, palpi, antennae (tips of several or 

 but one joint excepted) and legs (middle of femora excepted) 

 more or less reddish. Elytra with fairly numerous suberect 

 hairs, mixed with not much shorter subdepressed pubescence, 

 elsewhere with short pubescence. 



Head with dense, asperate punctures. Antennae not 

 very thin, not passing hind coxae, joints sixth to tenth dilated 

 to apex. Prothorax with punctures as on head, except that 

 they are even denser on a vaguely defined postmedian 

 impression. Elytra with not very large but mostly sharply 

 defined punctures, becoming smaller posteriorly, on parts of 

 basal half sublineate in arrangement. Length, 3-3^ mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Mount Barker (R. Helms), 

 Darling Ranges (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 3477. 



A rather compact species, close to antennata, but elytra 

 wider and distinctly brassy, and eyes smaller and more convex. 

 The depression on the prothorax is very feeble, but as the 

 punctures there present are more crowded than elsewhere it 

 appears to be fairly distinct, especially as, on one specimen, 

 the colour there is darker than on the adjacent parts. On 

 the (two) specimens before me the femora are deeply 



