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infnscated in the middle, and on one of them the dark parts 

 have a metallic gloss. 



TOMYRIS INCONSPICUA, n. Sp. 



9 . Brassy ; elytra of a somewhat purplish-bronze ; 

 under-surface darker, with a vague bluish gloss; labrum, 

 palpi, most of antennae, knees, and tarsi more or less red- 

 dish. Elytra with sparse pubescence and sparse hairs scattered 

 about, elsewhere with short and sparse pubescence. 



Rather compact. Head more convex than usual; with 

 crowded subasperate punctures. Prothorax with clearly 

 defined punctures, becoming somewhat more crowded (but 

 even there individually distinct) on a very vaguely defined 

 postmedian depression. Elytra with rather small but clearly 

 defined punctures on basal half, becoming smaller posteriorly. 

 Length, 2^ mm. 



Hab. — Western Australia: Darling Ranges (A. M. 

 Lea). Type (unique), I. 3478. 



A small dark species, at first glance approaching anien- 

 iiafa, but shape, clothing, antennae, and punctures all very 

 different. The notches on the four hind tibiae are very feeble. 

 The antennae are damaged on the type, but the fifth to 

 tenth joints are each somewhat dilated towards and infns- 

 cated at apex, and the basal joint is dark on the upper-surface. 



TOMYRTS VILLOSA, l\. Sp, 



d" . Head and prothorax bright metallic-green (the 

 prothorax sometimes golden) ; elytra bronzy, mesosternum, 

 metasternum, and abdomen brassy or brassy-green ; labrum and 

 appendages (tip of antennae, base of femora, and the claws 

 excepted) reddish-flavous. Upper-surface (more conspicuously 

 so on elytra than elsewhere) with numerous long erect hairs 

 scattered amongst rather sparse pubescence. 



Head with crowded, asperate punctures. Antennae long 

 and thin, extending almost to apex of abdomen. Prothorax 

 with a moderately distinct postmedian depression, on which 

 the punctures are much as on head ; elsewhere thev are 

 sparser and more sharply defined, especially in front. Ehitra 

 with a depression behind each shoulder vaguely connected 

 wath base in two places ; with numerous rather small sharply 

 defined (but subasperate) punctures about base, becoming 

 smaller posteriorly. Fifth segment of ahdoinen with a con- 

 spicuous median fovea. Four front tari<\ with basal joint 

 distinctly inflated. Length ( c^ , 9)? ^^"4 mm, 



9 . Differs in being somewhat wider, bronzy, antennae 

 shorter, considerably wider, and with most of the joints 

 infuscated, prothoracic depression more conspicuous, abdomen 



