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Bah- New South Wales : Jenolan (J. C. Wiburd). Type, 

 I. 3465. 



There are seven specimens under examination, but I can 

 find no positive sexual differences between any of them. Some 

 have more of the head green and the abdomen less convex, 

 and these are possibly males ; but as the abdomen is not con- 

 spicuously glabrous along the middle of any of them, and the 

 basal joint of the front tarsi is much alike in all, they are 

 probably all females. On one specimen the legs (tarsi excepted) 

 are almost entirely reddish, but on the others the femora and 

 tibiae are both more or less infuscated (and sometimes sub- 

 metallic) towards the apex, and the tarsi (claw- joint but not 

 the claws excepted) are dark. The clypeus is always of a vivid 

 green, and the green sometimes extends backwards almost to 

 the base, or narrowly along the middle. The tip of the 

 prothorax and the scutellum are sometimes green, the meta- 

 sternum is generally brassy-green, the abdomen generally 

 brassy-purple or brassy. Each elytron about the basal third 

 has a vague transverse depression, and obscurely connected 

 with this a feeble submedian longitudinal one ; on the de- 

 pressed parts the punctures are larger than elsewhere, although 

 not transversely confluent, and the striation is fairly distinct ; 

 but from various directions feeble striation may be seen on 

 almost any part of the elytra. 



Edusa flavicornis, n. sp. 



Coppery, with a vague greenish gloss ; parts of under- 

 surface brassy-green, front of head and a median line from 

 same bright green ; labrum and appendages more or less 

 fiavous. Densely clothed with rather short, golden pubescence, 

 becoming paler in places. 



Head with punctures and median line much as on pre- 

 ceding species. Prothorax shagreened : with dense and small 

 but fairly distinct punctures. Elytra suboblong : striate- 

 punctate, striae feeble but distinct; punctures fairly large on 

 basal half, becoming small posteriorly ; interstices with dense 

 minute punctures ; a vague post-humeral depression on each 

 side. Abdomen glabrous along middle, apical segment highly 

 polished. Femora edentate; basal joint of four front tarsi 

 distinctly inflated. Length, 4 mm. 



Uah.—^ew South Wales: National Park (A. M. Lea). 

 Type (unique), I. 3466. 



In general appearance close to vrsa, but size somewhat 

 smaller, clothing sparser, and legs reddish. On the type not 

 even the tips of the antennae are infuscated. The elytral 

 punctures are nowhere transversely confluent. The abdomen 

 is without sexual impressions, but the basal joint of the four 



