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interstices only on apical slope, elsewhere the punctures are 

 mostly subgeminate in arrangement, but becoming denser and 

 irregular about basal third. Length, 4|-5 mm. 



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

 I. 3494. 



The hind knees are deeply infuscated, the others are not 

 at all or scarcely darker than the adjacent parts; the tips of 

 the five apical joints of antennae are also infuscated. 



This species was not included in the table as only females 

 are known of it ; it is, however, sufficiently distinct, and differs 

 from the five preceding ones by the considerably denser and 

 smaller prothoracic punctures, somewhat different margins, 

 and different elytral punctures. One specimen (from Brisbane, 

 T. McGregor) is of a bright bluish-green, but otherwise agrees 

 with the ones from Gayndah ; it at first appears to belong to 

 intercoxalis, but the punctures at sides of prothorax are much 

 denser and not half the size of those of that species. 



Geloptera eluta, n. sp, 

 PL viii., fig. 122. 



d" . Flavo-castaneous, with a vague metallic gloss ; 

 appendages flavous, but knees and tips of three apical joints 

 of antennae infuscated. 



Head with rather small and not dense but well-defined 

 punctures, becoming smaller and denser on clypeus ; a shallow 

 depression between eyes. Prothorax with sides somewhat 

 undulated about middle ; punctures neither very large nor 

 dense about middle, but becoming larger and crowded on sides. 

 Elytra with dense punctures of moderate size, more crowded 

 behind shoulders than elsewhere, and transversely confluent 

 there, in places in subgeminate rows, and on apical slope con- 

 fined to regular deep striae. Flanks of 'prosternum shining, 

 and with a few scattered punctures. Abdomen with some 

 long hairs along each side of middle, fourth segment about as 

 long as third and fourth combined, fifth shallowly depressed 

 in middle. Femora stout, edentate ; hind tibiae rather long, 

 gently curved in middle, lightly dilated to apex, which is 

 acutely armed on the lower-surface, and scarcely wider than 

 the apex of the middle pair; basal joint of four front tarsi 

 distinctly inflated. Length, 4^-5|^ mm. 



9 . Differs in having the abdomen more convex, fourth 

 segment much shorter, hind tibiae straighter, unarmed at 

 apex, and in the tarsi. 



Hah. — Queensland: Port Denison. Type, in Macleay 

 Museum; co-type, I. 3641, in South Australian Museum. 



Although tabled with composita, not very close to that 

 species in general appearance, from which also it differs in the 



