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it is somewhat similarly defined about the base, and the fourth 

 is somewhat similar but longer about summit of apical slope, 

 each shoulder also appears to be subtuberculate. 



Eight males (from Galston and Sydney) appear to belong 

 to this species, but differ in being thinner, more depressed, and 

 paler. On the apical segment of abdomen there is a distinct 

 depression across most of its extent, and appearing subfoveate 

 in middle ; anterior to this there appear to be feeble tubercular 

 swellings. On the typical form the median subfoveate impres- 

 sion is more than twice as wide, shallower, and the subtuber- 

 culate appearance is absent. One specimen (from Brisbane) 

 has elytra of a rather pale-flavous, but with three series of 

 elongated brassy spots, the first near base, the second before 

 middle, and the third crowning the apical slope ; its punctures 

 are also decidedly coarser than usual. 



GeLOPTERA SETIFEllA, n. Sp. 



PL vii., fig. 73; pi. viii., fig. 120. 



(S . Of a livid-brown or testaceous, with a bronzy-green 

 gloss, but some parts bronzy-green ; appendages paler. 



Head with punctures of moderate size but not very dense, 

 becoming denser and smaller about base and on clypeus; 

 shallowly impressed between eyes; these rather conspicuously 

 notched. Prothorax somewhat uneven, usually with two or 

 three small impunctate spaces, each side with two small sub- 

 median teeth ; punctures dense and rather coarse, denser on 

 sides than in middle. Elytra with well-defined striae and 

 interstices on apical half, elsewhere punctures more or less 

 irregularly distributed. Abdomen depressed along middle, 

 intercoxal process with a distinct ridge on each side, its end 

 appearing as a subconical tooth, fourth segment shallowly 

 foveate in middle, fifth elevated in middle of apex. Hind 

 tibiae each with a small recurved hook, and a long apical 

 bristle; basal joint of four front tarsi strongly inflated. 

 Length, 4-4| mm. 



9 • Differs in having the abdomen evenly convex and 

 simple, hind tibiae without apical hook and bristle, and basal 

 joint of four front tarsi much smaller. 



Hab. — Queensland: Mackay (R. E. Turner), Bundaberg, 

 Cairns district (E. W. Ferguson and A. M. Lea), Cairns, 

 Rockhampton (Macleay Museum). Type, I. 3036. 



^ The abdomen of the male appears to be composed of six 

 segments owing to the pygidium strongly encroaching on the 

 fifth, across the middle of the pygidium there is a conspicuous 

 ridge, and this from the sides appears as a subconical tubercle, 

 the two basal segments have numerous long hairs in the middle 



