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on the type (the only specimen known) of that species the 

 elytra have a distinct purplish gloss. On the under-surface 

 of the female the colour is more brassy than green. 



Edusa niveosquamosa, n. sp. 



d . Blackish-bronze ; labrum and appendages (tip of 

 palpi and of antennae, and the claws excepted) reddish or 

 flavous. Rather densely clothed with snowy-white elliptic 

 scales. 



Htad rather wide : with small and dense partially-con- 

 cealed punctures : median line indistinct. Protliorax more 

 than twice as wide as long, front angles feebly acute : with 

 small scattered punctures. Elytra rather elongate, no wider 

 than prothorax, parallel-sided to beyond the middle, punctures 

 not very large, somewhat irregularly distributed, and larger 

 about basal third (where some of them are confluent) than 

 elsewhere. Abdomen with a conspicuous median fovea on 

 apical segment. Femora stout, front pair strongly dentate ; 

 basal joint of each tarsus inflated. Length, 4^ mm. 



TIah. — South Australia: Cook Plain (J. G. O. Tepper). 

 Ty}>e (unique), I. 3235. 



Readily distinguished from all others of the genus by the 

 snowy-white elliptic scales ; these are uniform in character on 

 the upper- and under-surfaces, and on the legs ; on the pro- 

 thorax and elytra they are not quite uniformlv distributed 

 (but this may be due to partial abrasion), they are denser than 

 elsewhere on the flanks of the sterna. 



Edusa mira, n. sp. 

 PI. vii., fig. 65; pi. viii., fig. 118. 



S . Blackish-bronze, parts of under-surface with a- 

 greenish gloss; labrum, palpi (apical joint excepted), and part 

 of antennae reddish or flavous, parts of legs obscurely diluted 

 with red. Rather densely clothed with snowy- white pub- 

 escence, denser on flanks of metasternum than elsewhere, but 

 on the elytra becoming rather thin scales, and which are com- 

 pacted into numerous small, evenly-distributed fascicles. 



Head wide ; with small and sparse, more or less concealed 

 punctures ; without median line : clypeus indistinctly separated 

 from the face : labrum short. Eyes of moderate size, widely 

 separated, distinctly notched. Antennae thin, extending to 

 about second segment of abdomen ; first joint rather stout, as 

 long as third, second more than half the length of third, third 

 to fifth subequal in length, the following ones somewhat longer. 

 Frotliorqr about twice as wide as the median length, base 

 bisinuate, sides almost straight, slightly narrowed in front, 

 front angles produced and acute, hind ones acute ; with small 



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