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adjacent parts, and very feebly (scarcely visibly) striated. 

 The female is generally more conspicuously brassy than the 

 male. 



Edusa monticola, n. sp. 



PI. viii., fig, 117. 



(S . Metallic brassy-green or greenish-blue ; under-surf ace 

 brassy or bluish, labrum metallic, parts of antennae- more or 

 less reddish. Elytra with small spots of whitish clothing 

 about the apex and sides. 



Head densely and finely obliquely strigose, and with 

 numerous subasperate punctures; a shallow transverse depres- 

 sion between eyes, and from its middle (where it is rather 

 deeper than elsewhere) a median line extending backwards 

 to base. Prothorax with front angles acute; with dense punc- 

 tures mostly conspicuously transversely confluent. Scutellum 

 transversely oblong, with a few small punctures. Elytra with 

 dense punctures, transverse sculpture very conspicuous except 

 on parts of the apical slope. A hdomen glabrous along middle, 

 basal segment finely transversely striated, middle of apex less 

 metallic, fourth flat in middle, fifth irregularly depressed in 

 middle, apex incurved for reception of pygidium. Front 

 femora strongly dentate, hind ones moderately and obtusely, 

 middle ones still more obtusely dentate; hind tibiae somewhat 

 sinuous on lower-surface, apical slope rather long and 

 irregular. Length, 6:^-7 mm, 



9 . Differs in being more robust, hind tibiae with the 

 apical slope much more abrupt and in the abdomen and tarsi. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Mount Kosciusko (H. J. 

 Carter). Type, I. 3633. 



Close to spinicoUis, but tibiae entirely metallic instead 

 of reddish at the base, the hind ones of the male with the 

 apical slope longer and the overhanging tooth less conspicuous. 

 The basal joint of the antennae is metallic on the upper- and 

 reddish on the under-surface, the three following joints are 

 partly dark on the upper-surface; parts of the next two joints 

 are subject to variation in colour. The head, and more especi- 

 ally the clypeus, appears to be shagreened, but on close 

 examination its finer sculpture is seen to be due to very fine 

 striation. On the prothorax only some of the medio-apical 

 punctures are separately impressed, elsewhere they so run 

 together that the surface appears to be covered with fine trans- 

 verse ridges, and these on close examination are seen to be 

 strigose. The basal joint of each of the four front tarsi is 

 alike in length on the sexes, but whilst that of the male is 

 almost parallel-sided for at least three-fourths of its length, 

 on the female it is narrowed from apex to base; the tooth of 



