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Close to the preceding species and with similar sexual 

 differences, but larger and darker, etc. There is usually a 

 vague metallic-green gloss on the prothorax ; the tips of the 

 elytra are usually paler than before same, the base also, and 

 the scutellum, are usually paler than the adjacent parts. On 

 some specimens the punctures on the head are sparser than 

 on others ; although usually rather numerous they are never 

 crowded together. 



Geloptepa microcalla, n. sp. 



d" . Purple ; abdomen brownish, labrum and appendages 

 flavous, but tip of antennae infuscated. 



Head with dense punctures of moderate size, larger be- 

 tween eyes and on base of clypeus than elsewhere, but small on 

 lateral angles of clypeus. Prothorax with sides feebly undu- 

 lated about middle, basal angles distinctly armed; with dense 

 and fairly large punctures, becoming crowded on sides. Elytra 

 with dense and rather large punctures on basal half, becoming 

 somewhat larger behind shoulders, about middle subgeminate 

 in arrangement and becoming seriate posteriorly, where, to- 

 wards suture, they are confined to striae. Fourth segment of 

 ahdomen about once and one-half the length of third, fifth very 

 short. Femora rather stout, edentate ; hind tibiae not very 

 wide at apex; basal joint of four front tarsi somewhat inflated. 

 Length, 3 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Port Denison. Type in Macleay 

 Museum. 



On the type there is neither a distinct median line on the 

 head nor a distinct impression between the eyes. A specimen 

 originally mounted on the same card with the male is possibly 

 the female of the species ; it differs in being somewhat wider, 

 head with a small inter-ocular fovea and with a narrow median 

 line traceable from same to base, abdomen with fourth segment 

 longer and fifth shorter ; the head, prothorax, and sterna 

 brassy-green, in places becoming a vivid-green, and the elytra 

 bronzy, with green margins ; the abdomen and the appendages 

 (but only the basal joint of each antenna and the hind legs are 

 present) are coloured as those of the type. 



Geloptera igneonitens, Baly. 

 PL vii., fig. 79. 

 9 • Head purple, with three oblique metallic-green lines 

 starting from between eyes; prothorax purple, with all the 

 margins narrowly green ; scutellum green and purple ; elytra 

 bronzy-black, becoming purple towards sides, but the margins 

 green ; under-surface and legs bronzy or bronzy-green, in 



