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numerous specimens. The depression on the apical segment 

 of abdomen of the male is not very deep, but is very conspicu- 

 ous on account of being of a bluish colour, while the sides are 

 brassy. On the female the basal joint of each tarsus is 

 decidedly larger than is usual in that sex, but those of the four 

 front ones are distinctly smaller than on the male. 



Edusa virgatipes, n. sp. 

 (S . Colours variable. Moderately clothed with short, 

 depressed, whitish pubescence, becoming quite white on under- 

 surface ; elytra with numerous long erect blackish hairs, 

 becoming shorter but not much sparser on prothorax. 



Head shagreened ; with dense, small, and rather feeble 

 punctures, more clearly defined on clypeus than elsewhere ; 

 median line moderately distinct in front, feeble at base. Pro- 

 thorax shagreened and punctured as head. Elytra suboblong, 

 much wider than prothorax ; with rather large but not con- 

 fluent punctures about basal third, becoming smaller towards 

 base and suture, and much smaller elsewhere. Abdomen 

 widely glabrous along middle, apical segment rather feebly 

 depressed in middle, but the depressed part of a darker colour 

 than the sides. Front femora strongly dentate ; basal joint of 

 four front tarsi very conspicuously inflated. Length ( c? , 9 )> 

 5J-6J mm. 



9 . Differs in the abdomen and tarsi. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Blue Mountains (Blackburn's 

 collection, Macleay Museum, E. W. Ferguson, and H. J. 

 Carter), Jenolan (J. C. Wiburd), Mount Victoria (A. M. Lea). 

 Type, I. 3171. 



The colours are very variable, and whilst decidedly 

 metallic are seldom brightly so. The front tibiae are always 

 reddish on the under-surface and dark on the upper ; the 

 femora are more or less reddish at the base, the antennae have 

 the tip black, and the five or six preceding joints (independently 

 of sex) varying from almost entirely pale to entirely infuscate, 

 the basal joint is dark on its upper-surface ; the apical joint of 

 each palpus is conspicuously black. The commoner forms (the 

 type belongs to the first) are as follows : — 



1 . Metallic-green, with (or without) a vague bluish tinge, 

 under-surface and legs more or less brassy. 



2. Dark-bronze, head brassy-green in front, under-surface 

 in places with a brassy-green gloss. 



3. Coppery or purplish-bronze, scutellum greenish, head 

 and under-surface as on Form 2. 



4. Brassy-green, prothorax more brassy than green. 



A male of this variety in Mr. Carter's collection has the 

 front tibiae almost entirely pale. 



5. Purple. 



