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short, with a glabrous median space margined with longer 

 hairs along middle,, fifth segment with a widely transverse 

 impression, subfoveate in its middle. Femora stout, front 

 pair strongly dentate; hind tibiae compressed, apical half wide 

 and subparallel-sided ; basal joint of front tarsi inflated. 

 Length, 5 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Forbes (H. J. Carter, from 

 A. Stephens). Type, I. 3632. 



The antennae and tarsi of the type are almost wholly 

 missing, and the surface is perhaps somewhat abraded, but 

 the species being a very distinct one it has been described. 

 The clothing on the head consists of dens© and somewhat 

 golden depressed pubescence, parted in the middle; on the 

 prothorax and elytra most of the clothing is darker, but as 

 these parts are more or less greasy, and as where the derm 

 is clean the pubescence is similar to that of the head, it is 

 probable that normally the entire pubescence of the upper- 

 surface is more or less golden. The tooth of each front femur 

 is placed so far back that it could be easily overlooked. The 

 most conspicuous feature of the species is the great width of 

 the hind tibiae, and these are not notched near the lower 

 apex as on the male of suturalis. 



Edusa clypealis, n. sp. 



(S . Dark metallic coppery-green, head (clypeus ex- 

 cepted), prothorax, suture, and parts of under-surface more 

 or less brassy; labrum black, with a brassy gloss; antennae 

 (tips of five apical joints excepted), palpi (tips excepted), 

 and legs more or less reddish. Moderately clothed with 

 whitish pubescence, on the elytra forming feeble lines, and 

 no sparser towards suture than elsewhere. 



Head shagreened and with fairly dense but rather indis- 

 tinct punctures; median line distinct and in front dilated; 

 clypeus highly polished and minutely punctate. Prothorax 

 shagreened, with small and well-defined but not very dense 

 punctures. Elytra with dense punctures of moderate size, 

 becoming larger in places, and smaller posteriorly, about basal 

 third many transversely confluent. Abdomen glabrous along 

 middle ; apical segment foveate. Front femora strongly 

 dentate ; basal joint of front tarsi strongly, of middle ones 

 moderately inflated. Length ( d* , 9)j 5-6 mm. 



9 . Differs in being of a beautiful golden-red, clypeus 

 more brassy than green, eyes smaller and less prominent, and 

 in the usual particulars of abdomen and tarsi. C^^) 



(79) Abdomen more convex, not glabrous along middle, apical 

 segment not foveate, and front tarsi with basal joint not con- 

 spicuously inflated. 



