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9 . Differs in being somewhat stouter, abdomen evenly 

 convex, and basal joint of four front tarsi smaller. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Clarence River (A. and F. R. 

 Zietz), Sydney (Macleay Museum, H. H. D. Griffith, E. W. 

 Ferguson, and British Museum, from C. Darwin), Camden 

 (Macleay Museum), Gosford (H. J. Carter), Wollongong, 

 Galston (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 3040. 



In general appearance strikingly close to the following 

 species, but abdomen of male utterly different. The sizes of 

 the punctures vary considerably between different individuals, 

 on some of them the basal ones on the head are more or less 

 obliquely confluent; on the basal half of elytra they are almost 

 honeycomb-like in arrangement, but posteriorly they are in 

 almost regular rows, with regular or feebly undulated inter- 

 stices. 



Geloptera miracula, n. sp. 



d" . Of a dull-red, with a greenish or bluish gloss ; 

 appendages paler, tips of palpi and of antennae, knees (fre- 

 quently only the hind ones), and sometimes parts of tarsi 

 infuscated. 



Head with crowded punctures, becoming sparser towards 

 base, on clypeus smaller and sparser about base, and much 

 smaller and sparser in front. Frothorax moderately convex, 

 each side with a distinct but obtuse submedian tooth, with 

 crowded, deep, and fairly-large punctures, more irregular 

 about middle than on sides. Elytra rather short and wide, 

 with crowded punctures, distinctly larger than on prothorax, 

 becoming lineate in arrangement with undulated interstices 

 posteriorly. Abdomen widely concave along middle, inter- 

 coxal process with a strongly elevated tubercle on each side, 

 each tubercle partly overhanging the coxa and with a con- 

 spicuous fascicle, third and fourth segments each with a 

 fascicle on each side of excavation, fifth largely excavated in 

 middle and each side of excavation with a round fovea. Basal 

 joint of four front taj^si inflated. Length, 5-6 mm. 



9 • Differs in having the abdomen strongly convex and 

 simple, and basal joint of four front tarsi somewhat smaller. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district (E. Allen, J. A. 

 Anderson, H. Hacker, and A. M. Lea), Rockhampton 

 (Macleay Museum). Type, I. 3495. 



Very distinct from all others of the subfamily by the 

 abdomen of the male ; this at first appears to be composed of 

 seven segments, but this is due to the pygidium (which is itself 

 transversely depressed so as to appear double) greatly encroach- 

 ing on the under-surface. The prothorax and sides of elytra 

 frequently appear to be of a rather vivid-green. On many 



