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with a small median fovea. Legs stout ; front femora angulate 

 but scarcely dentate ; four front tarsi with basal joint some- 

 what inflated. Length ( d" , 9)> 4|-5| mm. 



9 • Differs in the abdomen and tarsi. 



Hah. — New South Wales : Illawarra, Otford (Macleay 

 Museum and H. J. Carter), Sydney (Blackburn's collection), 

 Wollongong (A. M. Lea). Type, I, 3220. 



The clothing is denser than on any other species in the 

 Museum, being denser even than on hirta, whose femora also 

 are very different. 



Edusa setipennis, n. sp. 



9 . Black with a slight or moderate coppery gloss, 

 becoming bluish on part of suture ; labrum (its middle 

 infuscated), basal joints of palpi, joints three to six of 

 antennae and parts of others, tibiae, and base of femora, more 

 or less reddish. Moderately clothed with short, depressed 

 white setae, or pubescence. 



Head with dense and rather shallow punctures, fairly well 

 defined but in places subconfluent ; median line feeble. Pro- 

 thorax with front angles moderately acute, but scarcely visible 

 from above ; with dense and rather small punctures, becoming 

 longitudinally confluent on sides. Elytra suboblong ; with 

 fairly large punctures, more or less transversely confluent over 

 most of surface, but becoming smaller and shallower posteriorly. 

 Front femora subangulate, but not dentate. Length, 5 J mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Mullewa (Miss J. F. May). 

 Type (unique), I. 3464. 



In general appearance close to griffithi, but clothing 

 different and femora edentate. The type is possibly somewhat 

 abraded, but on the elytra the setae (which are sparser towards 

 and absent from suture, except posteriorly, than elsewhere) 

 nowhere exhibit a tendency to form fascicles. 



Edusa vtridifrons, n. sp. 



Golden-bronze, or purplish-bronze, or brassy, in places 

 green or coppery-green ; labrum, palpi, and antennae (tip 

 excepted) more or less flavous; legs reddish, in places darker. 

 Rather densely clothed with short, depressed, whitish or 

 greyish pubescence. 



Head shagreened ; with dense and rather small punctures, 

 sharply defined on and near clypeus, but less distinct else- 

 where ; median line distinct but not deep. Prothorax 

 shagreened, all angles rounded off ; punctures small and ill- 

 defined. Elytra suboblong ; with dense and rather small punc- 

 tures, becoming larger about basal third. Femora unarmed. 

 Length, 4-5 mm. 



