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clothed, and on the elytra the pubescence is absent from a 

 fairly wide sutural space on the basal two-thirds. The median 

 line on the head is but feebly impressed, but on one male, 

 owing to its being green, and the adjacent surface brassy, it 

 is very conspicuous. 



Edusa atrichia, n. sp. 

 (^ . Brassy-green, labrum and appendages reddish, but 

 tip of antennae infuscated. Upper-surface glabrous. 



Head with crowded asperate punctures becoming obliquely 

 or longitudinally confluent posteriorly, a shallow depression 

 between eyes, median line feebly impressed. Prothorax with 

 dense and rather large punctures, becoming still larger and 

 denser on sides, the interspaces with minute punctures. 

 Scutellum semicircular, impunctate or almost so. Elytra very 

 little wider than prothorax; near suture with punctures sub- 

 seriate in arrangement, becoming confined to deep striae on 

 apical slope, elsewhere between conspicuous transverse or 

 oblique ridges, these towards base encroaching even on the 

 suture. Abdomen glabrous along middle, fourth segment dis- 

 tinctly longer than third, and slightly longer than fifth, the 

 latter shallowly depressed and purplish in middle. Front 

 femora conspicuously but not strongly dentate; hind tibiae 

 rather long, apical slope abrupt; basal joint of four front 

 tarsi distinctly inflated. Length, 7^-8 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Sydney. Type, in Macleay 

 Museum; co-type, I. 3635, in South Australian Museum. 



The three specimens before me (two of which were with- 

 out labels of any kind) are entirely without elytral clothing 

 even in the lateral gutters, so apparently they are not 

 abraded; one of them has the scutellum gently convex, highly 

 polished, and impunctate; the others have it feebly depressed 

 and faintly rugulose, although without distinct punctures. 

 This is suggestive of froggatti, but the glabrous elytra and 

 uniformly red legs should be distinctive from that species. 

 Its nearest ally is plicata, which is somewhat smaller, with 

 darker legs, smaller and denser prothoracic punctures, and 

 even more pronounced transverse sculpture of elytra. In the 

 table it is associated with chlorophana, although differing in 

 many particulars from same. In general it is like members 

 of the group with metallic labrum. One has the elytra 

 almost entirely brassy, another has it almost entirely green, 

 the third being intermediate. Seen directly from above the 

 sides of the elytra appear to be slightly incurved behind the 

 shoulders, but the margins themselves are not at all incurved 

 there. The flanks of the prosternum are glabrous, and have 

 numerous large punctures; the episterna are pilose, with 



