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golden-green. I have only seen one male that could be re- 

 garded as having an obsolete carina on the prothorax ; on all 

 the others, and on all the females, it is altogether absent, or 

 represented by a short, feebly-shining line, scarcely the length 

 of the scutellum. The fifth segment of the abdomen is strongly 

 incurved to middle, and across the narrowed portion there 

 extends a shallow depression, but deepened at its ends. 



The female differs from the male in having the basal joint 

 of the four front tarsi less dilated, the fifth segment of abdomen 

 with a fairly large fovea, and the basal one convex and sparsely 

 clothed across the middle. It is sometimes coloured as laeta, 

 but occasionally has the entire upper-surface green, or golden- 

 green. 



Edusa distincta, Blackb. 



Although not mentioned in the original description, the 

 hind femora of this species <78) are distinctly dentate. 



Some specimens from Stanthorpe (Queensland) and Ben 

 Lomond (New South Wales) may represent a variety of this 

 species ; the males have the hind tibiae more conspicuously 

 angulate in middle ; on the typical form the apex of each has 

 a conspicuous curved tooth overhanging a semicircular notch, 

 the notch itself longer than the space between it and the tip ; 

 on the variety the notch is only about half the length of the 

 space between itself and the tip, and it is without an over- 

 hanging tooth. 



Edusa meyricki, Blackb. 

 PI. viii., fig. 113. 



Two specimens (sexes) in the Macleay Museum labelled 

 as from Western Australia appear to belong to this species; 

 the male agrees well with the description, except that it is 

 larger (2 J lines). The elytral pubescence is as described by 

 Blackburn, and its submaculate appearance appears to be 

 natural. The female differs from the male in being larger 

 (3 lines), more brassy, abdomen more convex, with fifth seg- 

 ment elevated in middle of apex, hind tibiae somewhat 

 different at apex, and basal joint of four front tarsi smaller. 



Edusa spinicollis, Blackb. 

 PL viii., fig. 115. 

 A dark specimen of this species was in the Blackburn 

 collection labelled as having been sent by Chapuis as varipes; 

 a similar specimen was also sent so named by Jacoby. The 

 characters given in the table, however, will serve to dis- 

 tinguish them from the species recognized as varipes by 

 Blackburn. 



(78) There are two co-types and many other specimens in the 

 Museum. 



