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middle, fourth elevated in middle of apex, fifth depressed in 

 middle. Length (d, 9), 3i-4 mm. 



9 . Differs in having somewhat smaller eyes, shorter legs, 

 and more strongly and evenly convex abdomen. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district (A. M. Lea). Type, 

 L 3487. 



On two females the tibiae and tarsi are rather deeply 

 infuscated. 



Geloptera orientalis, n. sp. 

 PI. vii., figs. 71 and 72. 



cS . Of a livid-brown with a bronzy or bronzy-green gloss, 

 subtuberculate parts of prothorax and of elytra darker ; labrum 

 and appendages fiavous, knees, and sometimes other parts of 

 legs, and apical parts of antennae infuscated. 



Head with numerous (but not crowded) punctures of 

 moderate size, becoming smaller and more crowded about base. 

 Prothorax somewhat uneven, a shallow depression towards 

 each side, a small submedian tooth on each side ; with dense 

 and fairly coarse punctures. Elytra with well-defined but 

 somewhat irregular striae and punctures on apical slope, else- 

 where with but remnants of same ; punctures much as on 

 prothorax. Abdomen flattened along middle, fifth segment 

 transversely impressed. Length ( d , 9)j 3J-6 mm. 



9 . Differs in having the abdomen more strongly and 

 evenly convex, and in the basal joint of four front tarsi being 

 much smaller. 



Hah. — Queensland : Brisbane (Blackburn's collection, A. 

 J. Coates, T. McGregor, and A. J. Turner), Gympie (R. 

 Illidge), Mount Tambourine ; New South Wales: Wollongong, 

 Gosford, Galston (A. M. Lea), Sydney (H. J. Carter and 

 British Museum). ^ Type, I. 3488. 



Frequently only the basal half of each femur is con- 

 spicuously fiavous ; sometimes only the three basal joints of 

 antennae are entirely pale. On each of the three or four basal 

 segments of abdomen of the male there are some long con- 

 spicuous hairs, and these form a straggling row on each side 

 of the middle. Similar hairs are to be seen on the males of 

 many other species of the genus, but as they appear to be 

 easily abraded it was usually not considered desirable to men- 

 tion them. The submedian tooth on each side of the prothorax 

 varies from being fairly acute to being a scarcely traceable 

 angulation of the margin, and the one on the right sometimes 

 differs from the one on the left. There are usually two or three 

 fairly distinct impunctate spaces on the pronotum, but they are 

 often absent. On each elytron the third interstice about the 

 middle is feebly elevated and darker than the adjacent parts, 

 so that it appears as a fairly well-defined depressed tubercle ; 



