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the latter, although it agrees exactly with the description), 

 with a locality label "Albany River" (evidently, however, 

 Albany or King George Sound). It was recorded as from 

 Rockhampton, in Queensland, but evidently in error. A 

 specimen from Beverley in the Museum belongs to the same 

 species, but its prothorax has but four small tubercles near 

 the apex, instead of six, and the sublateral foveae much 

 reduced in size, although traceable ; the post-humeral foveae 

 of its elytra are also much less conspicuous than on the 

 co-type ; on another specimen there are but two small sub- 

 apical tubercles on the prothorax. The species occurs from the 

 Swan River to King Greorge Sound, and varies in length from 

 5 to 7 mm. It was previously named nodosa by Clark : and it 

 is possibly also the species named Terillus rotundicollis by 

 Chapuis. 



Geloptera jugularis, Er. (formerly Colaspi^i). (85) 



Edusa singidarls, Blackb. 



PI. vii., fig. 70. 



A fairly common species in Tasmania and the mountainous 



parts of Victoria. The commonest form is bronzy, sometimes 



with a brassy gloss ; but the species varies to golden-red, 



green, brassy-green, blue, and deep purple. The uneven sides 



of prothorax and glabrous upper-surface are at variance with 



Edusa, to which genus it was referred by Blackburn. 



Division 1. 

 Geloptera inaequalis, n. sp. 



(S . Of a coppery-bronze, in places with greenish reflec- 

 tions ; antennae infuscated, two basal joints and tips of the 

 four following ones flavous ; legs varying in places from flavous 

 to bronze. 



Head with several slightly-elevated impunctate spaces, 

 elsewhere with fairly large irregularly distributed punctures, 

 denser and smaller on clypeus than elsewhere. Eyes large. 

 Prothorax uneven, with three conspicuous impunctate eleva- 

 tions and some very irregular smaller ones ; punctures fairly 

 large but very irregularly distributed ; each side with two very 

 feeble teeth about middle. Elytra very uneven ; each with a 

 fairly large tubercle about middle, shoulder subtuberculate, 

 between same and suture an elevation with three or four 

 ridges, apical slope conspicuously striated, the interstices there 

 conspicuously elevated and of irregular widths ; punctures 

 rather dense, large, and irregular. Basal segment of abdomen 

 with an interrupted longitudinal median ridge, fourth segment 



(85) In Maisters' Catalogue standing under A(/etinus. 



