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so feeble that Blackburn would probably have tabled it as 

 having "anterior femora widely angulate, but not with a 

 distinct tooth." 



Edusa tridens, n. sp. 



(S . Bright metallic brassy-green ; in places more brassy 

 than green ; labrum, palpi (apical joint black), antennae (some 

 of the apical joints partly or wholly infuscated) and legs (parts 

 of tarsi excepted) more or less reddish. Moderately clothed 

 with whitish pubescence, on the elytra mixed with rather 

 numerous longer hairs. 



Head with dense and sharply-defined, but rather small 

 punctures; median line well defined. Prothorax shagreened ; 

 front angles feebly produced ; with dense and small punctures. 

 Elytra suboblong; with dense punctures of moderate size, 

 becoming smaller posteriorly, and larger about basal third, and 

 near same, than elsewhere. Abdomen glabrous along middle, 

 apical segment lightly transversely impressed. Femora un- 

 armed ; four front tarsi with basal joint rather strongly 

 inflated. Length ( d* , $), 5J-5|- mm. 



9 . Differs in being of a brassy-red, with only the front 

 of the clypeus green, and in the usual particulars of abdomen 

 and tarsi. 



Bah. — New South Wales: Mount Kosciusko (R. Helms 

 and W. E. Raymond). Type, I. 3463. 



The three specimens before me all differ in colour ; on the 

 type male the head (from certain directions) appears to have 

 a conspicuous green trident, the space between the tines being 

 brassy ; on the female the trident is traceable by slight impres- 

 sions, although not by colour ; but on another male the head 

 is entirely green. A few of the elytral punctures appear to be 

 feebly confluent, but there are no distinct transverse ridges 

 separating them. In some respects it resembles some of the 

 varieties of viridicollis, but the femora are edentate. 



Edusa ursa, n. sp. 



d" . Golden-bronze, upper-surface shagreened throughout ; 

 femora and parts of under -surface sometimes with a greenish 

 gloss, labium, palpi (apical joint black), basal joints of 

 antennae, and parts of tibiae more or less reddish. Very 

 densely clothed with short, stramineous pubescence. 



Jlead with dense, but small and well-defined punctures; 

 median line feeble. ProtJiorax with punctures minute and 

 scarcely traceable before abrasion. Elytra suboblong ; striate- 

 punctate, punctures fairly large about base, becoming smaller 

 posteriorly ; striae rather lightly impressed, but distinct 

 throughout. Abdomen glabrous along middle ; apical segment 



