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median line distinct in middle. Prothorax with sides evenly 

 rounded, front angles gently produced ; with rather large 

 punctures, becoming crowded on sides. Elytra with sides 

 gently and evenly rounded ; with clearly defined punctures of 

 rather large size, on basal half (but not about base itself) 

 many transversely confluent, apical slope with small punctures 

 and a few distinct subsutural striae. Front femora moder- 

 ately dentate. Length, 3J-3f mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Comboyne (W. H. Muldoon). 

 Type, I. 3458. 



The entirely glabrous upper-surface of this, and of the 

 five following species, is strikingly at variance with the 

 majority of species of Edusa, but apart from this character 

 they would appear to belong to that genus, and several 

 glabrous species have previously been referred to it. The 

 three specimens before me of the present one evidently belong 

 to but one sex, as the abdomen is simple they are probably 

 females, but the basal joint of each of the four front tarsi 

 is rather longer than is usual on females. The prothorax 

 has considerably larger and sparser punctures, especially on 

 the disc, than on flavipes or podagi-osa. 



Of four specimens recently obtained from Dorrigo^^o) (W. 

 Heron) three are males, and these differ from the type in 

 having the fourth segment of abdomen larger, the fifth nar- 

 rowly transversely impressed on each side, the basal joint of 

 the four front tarsi larger, and the antennae somewhat longer ; 

 five females (of which one is purple), also from Dorrigo, differ 

 in being larger (4J-4J mm.). All the Dorrigo specimens have 

 the head more convex and with smaller punctures than on 

 the type. 



Edusa flavipes, n. sp. 



Bright metallic-green; labrum, palpi (tips excepted), 

 antennae (parts of five or six apical joints excepted), and 

 legs (parts of tarsi excepted) reddish-flavous. Upper-surface 

 glabrous, the under rather lightly pubescent. 



Head with fairly dense, well - defined punctures of 

 moderate size, becoming small on clypeus ; median line well 

 impressed; front of clypeus almost straight. Frotliorax with 

 sides evenly rounded, front angles moderately acute; with 

 dense and sharply defined but rather small punctures. Elytra 

 with sides gently rounded; with dense and fairly large punc- 

 tures, becoming smaller posteriorly and towards (but not at) 

 base more or less transversely confluent. Front femora 

 strongly dentate. Length, 3| mm. 



Hah. — Victoria (Blackburn's collection). Type, I. 3174. 



(80) Near Comboyne. 



