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In build and clothing it is much like virgatijjes, but the legs 

 are entirely pale, and the abdomen of the male is somewhat 

 different. From perplexa, and all its varieties, it differs in 

 being larger and elytra with numerous hairs amongst the 

 pubescence. On one specimen the clothing is almost white. 

 The elytral punctures from some directions appear to be in 

 quite regular rows, but this appearance is less noticeable about 

 the basal third, owing to the punctures there having a tendency 

 to become transversely confluent. The basal joint of the four 

 hind tarsi of the male is lop-sided, of the female only on the 

 hind pair. 



Edusa securigera, n. sp. 

 PI. vii., figs. 60, 67, and 68. 

 (5" . Of a rather dark metallic-green ; labrum and 

 appendages flavous, but tip of antennae infuscated. Elytra 

 with suberect pubescence. 



Head with dense, sharply-defined punctures of moderate 

 size, a few becoming confluent posteriorly- Antennae rather 

 long and thin, second joint stouter and shorter than third. 

 Apical joint of each palpus inflated to and truncate at apex. 

 Prothorax scarcely twice as wide as the median length ; with 

 crowded and rather coarse punctures ; sides uneven. Scutelhnn 

 VQYj small and sparsely punctate. Elytra rather elongate ; 

 with crowded and rather large punctures, most of which are 

 more or less transversely confluent. Prosternum with dense, 

 well-defined punctures, larger on flanks than elsewhere. 

 Abdomen with fourth segment distinctly larger than the adja- 

 cent ones, the fifth with a wide median impression. Femora 

 stout, front pair strongly dentate ; tibiae rather long and thin ; 

 basal joint of four front tarsi lightly inflated. Length, 

 3^-4 mm. 



9 . Differs in being more robust, more or less brassy, 

 prothorax more than twice as wide as the median length, apical 

 joint of palpi much thinner, abdomen more convex, fourth 

 segment shorter than the-adjacent ones, and the fifth shallowly 

 depressed in middle of base and the apex upcurved. 



Hab.—'i^ew South Wales: Dorrigo (W. Heron). Type, 

 I. 3638. 



The securiform palpi of the male resemble those of many 

 Heferomera, but the palpi of the female are almost normal. 

 On the male of palpalis (which otherwise is quite an ordinary 

 Edusa), and to a certain extent on the males of several other 

 species they are similar, so that it appears desirable to regard 

 the species as an aberrant Edusa. It might have been referred 

 to Gelopfera; of the three specimens before me the female has 

 the sides of the prothorax feebly tridentate about the middle, 

 one male has each side very feebly bidentate there, and on the 



