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excepted) flavous or reddish. Clothing much as on preceding 

 species. 



Head shagreened, with dense and small punctures, sharply 

 defined only on clypeus; median line distinct but feebly 

 impressed. Prothorax shagreened ; with small but distinct 

 punctures. Elytra briefly suboblong, distinctly wider than 

 prothorax ; punctures somewhat as on preceding species, but a 

 few transversely confluent. Femora unarmed. Length, 

 3-3i mm. 



" Ilab.—^ew South Wales: Galston (A. M. Lea). Type, 

 I. 3468. 



On all the (seven) specimens before me the elytra are 

 conspicuously green on the sides, and become brassy along the 

 middle; on the prothorax the sides are sometimes green, and 

 the disc brassy, but on some the prothorax is uniformly green ; 

 the head varies from almost entirely green, to green, or brassy- 

 green only on the clypeus and adjacent to same. The speci- 

 mens, if all of one sex, are females, but as there are feeble 

 differences in the clothing of the abdomen, and in the basal 

 joints of tarsi, it is possible that some are males, and that the 

 sexes are but feebly defined. 



Edusa chlorion, n. sp. 



d" . Bright metallic-green ; labrum and appendages (tip 

 of antennae and the claws excepted) more or less reddish. 

 Densely clothed with short, depressed, stramineous or whitish 

 pubescence, becoming quite white on under-surface. 



Head very feebly shagreened ; with dense and small 

 punctures, becoming sharply defined on clypeus ; median line 

 fairly distinct in front, vague towards base. Prothorax 

 shagreened ; punctures small and indistinct before abrasion. 

 Elytra briefly suboblong ; with dense but rather small punc- 

 tures, larger about basal third than elsewhere. Abdomen 

 glabrous along middle, apical segment with a small median 

 fovea. Femora unarmed. Length ( d" , 9)? 2J-3J mm. 



9 . Differs in the abdomen and tarsi. 



Hah. — Western Australia: King George Sound (British 

 Museum, from C. Darwin), Rottnest Island, Bunbury (A. M. 

 Lea). Type, I. 3440. 



Close to pavens, but elytra entirely without long hairs, and 

 front femora evenly rounded ; the females also are green. From 

 evanescent, to which it is closer, it is distinguished by the 

 greater comparative width of the prothorax ; it is also con- 

 sistently somewhat larger. Before abrasion the prothoracic 

 punctures are much less distinct than on inermis, and after 

 abrasion they are seen to be smaller and denser ; the five 

 specimens before me are also more of a golden-green, whereas 



