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Hah. — Western Australia (British and Macleay 

 Museums); Geraldton (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 3455. 



Rather smaller than the other species with metallic 

 labrum, and elytral clothing uniformly distributed instead 

 of being confined to the sides and apex ; the clypeus is 

 unusually conspicuous. The British Museum specimens are 

 more obscurely coloured than the types, but otherwise agree 

 with them. 



Edusa abdominalis, n. sp. 

 PI. viii., fig. 116. 



d" . Black with a vague purplish or bronzy-gloss ; labrum 

 deep metallic-blue or brassy, palpi with basal joints fiavous, 

 antennae infuscated, basal joints more or less pale on under- 

 surface, upper-surface of first metallic. Upper-surface with 

 rather sparse whitish pubescence, condensed into small dis- 

 tinct spots on elytra, but basal half of same in middle glabrous. 



Head shagreened, with dense and distinct but rather 

 shallow punctures; median line narrow at base, dilated in 

 front; clypeus depressed and minutely punctate. Prothorax 

 with front angles rather acutely produced ; with very dense 

 punctures of moderate size, becoming larger towards sides, 

 and frequently transversely confluent. Elytra with dense 

 and fairly large punctures, transversely confluent almost 

 throughout, and very conspicuously so in places. Abdomer} 

 glabrous along middle, basal segment with a subtriangular 

 apical process, apical segment ratlier shallowly transversely 

 impressed at base. Femora stout, front pair strongly 

 dentate, the others subangulate; hind tibiae with apical slope 

 long, and with a conspicuous tooth overhanging summit of 

 same; basal joint of four front tarsi conspicuously inflated. 

 Length ( c? , 9 )? ^i'^i mm. 



9 . Differs in hind tibiae with apical slope much shorter 

 and without a tooth overhanging same, and in the abdomen 

 and tarsi. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Blue Mountains (Blackburn's 

 collection), Braidwood, Loftus, National Park, Sydney (A. M. 

 Lea), Port Stephens (British Museum), Sydney (Macleay 

 Museum and E. W. Ferguson). Type, I. 3457. 



In Blackburn's table would be associated with spinicollis, 

 from which it differs in its darker colour, darker legs, and 

 different abdomen of male. On the male of the present species 

 the basal segment has a conspicuous triangular space in the 

 middle with numerous transverse striae, and the apex, when 

 viewed from the side, appears as a pointed flap, considerably 

 elevated above the adjacent parts. On spinicollis the median 

 space is considerably wider, more rounded posteriorly, not 

 elevated as a flap above (although somewhat higher than) the 



