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front tarsi seems too large for the specimen to be other than a 

 male. 



Edusa posthumeralis, n. sp. 



Brassy or brassy-green, or golden-purple, head more or 

 less green ; labrum and appendages (tip of antennae and claws 

 excepted) flavous or reddish. Moderately densely clothed with 

 short, depressed, silken pubescence, becoming paler on under- 

 surface. 



Head shagreened ; with dense and small punctures, becom- 

 ing larger and more sharply defined towards and on clypeus ; 

 median line narrowly impressed towards base, becoming almost 

 foveate in front. Prothorax shagreened with minute but 

 fairly distinct punctures. Elytra rather short, suboblong ; on 

 basal half with fairly large punctures, becoming smaller pos- 

 teriorly, especially about suture; a feeble depression about each 

 shoulder. Basal segment of ahdomen glabrous along middle. 

 Femora unarmed; four front tarsi with basal joint somewhat 

 inflated and larger than on hind pair. Length ( d , 9)) 

 3-3| mm. 



9 . Differs in being more brassy, and in the abdomen and 

 tarsi. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Dorrigo and Gosford (H. J. 

 Carter), Svdney (Maclea}^ Museum), Galston (A. M. Lea). 

 Type, I. 3467. 



There were several species (including viridipennis and 

 evanescens) mixed with the present one, but all now regarded 

 as belonging to the species have a depression behind each 

 shoulder, interrupted in middle by a ridge that divides it into 

 two parts ; from the two species named these depressions are 

 entirely absent. From glauca the femora are at once distinc- 

 tive. The colour of the prothorax and elytra (and including 

 the scutellum or not) varies from a brassy-green to a beautiful 

 golden-purple, occasionally the elytra are darker than the 

 prothorax, but they are usually of one uniform shade of colour. 

 On the males (a pair in the Macleay Museum are marked as 

 having been taken in cop.) the head is almost entirely of a 

 vivid-green, and sometimes almost the entire under-surface 

 is greenish ; the apical segment of abdomen appears to be with- 

 out a transverse impression, but from certain directions a very 

 feeble one may be seen ; on the females the clypeus and adjacent 

 parts are usually brassy-green, but occasionally with the green 

 tinge scarcely indicated. 



Edusa viridilatera, n. sp. 



Brassy or brassy-green, in places becoming coppery or 

 green ; labrum and appendages (tip of antennae and claws 



