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There are also many intermediate forms, but the species 

 mav be readily distinguished by the long blackish hairs scat- 

 tered amongst the elytral pubescence, and by the longitudinally- 

 striped front tibiae. 



Edusa chalcea, n. sp. 



cf . Brassy, sometimes with a golden or purplish gloss ;: 

 head of a vivid-green in front, becoming brassy towards base ;: 

 labrum and appendages (tip of antennae and claws excepted) ^ 

 flavous or reddish. Densely clothed with short, depressed, 

 whitish pubescence, becoming snowy on under-surface : elytra 

 Avith longer but not very conspicuous hairs scattered about. 



[lead shagreened ; with dense, minute, and indistinct 

 punctures, rather feebly defined even on clypeus ; median line^ 

 feeble and narrow. Frofliordt shagreened and punctured as 

 head. Eh/tra suboblong ; with dense and small punctures, 

 becoming of moderate size, but not transversely confluent, 

 about basal third. Ahdomen glabrous along middle, starting 

 with a depressed space at middle of apex of first segment, fourth 

 depressed at apex, fifth with an almost continuous transverse 

 impression. Front femorn strongly dentate ; basal joint of 

 four front tarsi strongly inflated. Length ( cT , 9 )> ^^—'^\ mm. 



9 . Differs in the abdomen and tarsi. 



Bdh. — Queensland (British Museum, from — Darnel), 

 Rockhampton (Macleay Museum), Bundaberg (Blackburn's 

 collection). Type, I. 3221. 



In general appearance close to Kiutveola, but darker, and 

 male with a medio-apical depression on basal segment of 

 abdomen, viewed from the side it is well defined : on the males 

 of suaveala and of the following species there is no such depres- 

 sion : the fourth segment is also different. 



Edusa turneri, n. sp. 



(S . Bronze or purplish-bronze, in some places with 

 greenish reflections ; clypeus of a vivid-gi'een : labrum and 

 appendages (tip of palpi), of antennae, and the claws excepted) 

 more or less reddish. Rather densely clothed with short, de- 

 pressed, silken pubescence, becoming white on under-surface ; 

 elytra with some longer hairs scattered about, but rather 

 indistinct, except posteriorly. 



J/cdd shagreened : punctures dense, small, and ill-defined, 

 even on clypeus; median line feeble. Protliora.r shagreened 

 and punctured much as head. Eli/fra suboblong, distinctly 

 v/ider than prothorax, vaguely striated : with dense and small 

 punctures, becoming larger in the rows toward base, and larger 

 about basal third than elsewhere, but not transversely con- 

 fluent. Ahdo}ji(n glabrous alons middle, fourth segment 



