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Hah. — Queensland: Cairns (E. Allen). Type (unique), 

 I. 3503. 



The under-surface of the type, although not at all 

 metallic, except on parts of the prosternum, has the peculiarly 

 livid appearance that is sometimes indicative of immaturity, 

 and the three terminal joints of antennae are missing; but 

 the species is so abundantly distinct by other characters that 

 I have not hesitated to describe it. ' It is readily distinguished 

 from the preceding species by the sides of prothorax, and by 

 the hind femora ; the tibiae are also much less conspicuously 

 canaliculate. Each basal and apical angle of the prothorax 

 is provided with an elongate seta. In structure it is close to 

 jugularis, but the type is of a much more vivid green than 

 any specimen I have seen of that species, the male of which 

 lias also a distinct round fovea on the fifth segment of 

 abdomen and the basal joint of the front tarsi decidedly 

 shorter and wider ; its prothorax is also more uneven'^ and 

 with different punctures. 



Terillus. 



This genus appears to have been regarded as one to which 

 almost any doubtful pubescent species could be referred. 



Terillus rotundicollis, Clip. 

 There is nothing in the generic description of this species, 

 ■or of the short specific one, inconsistent with its beii\g 

 <TeJoptera nodosa. The elytra were described as having three 

 interrupted costae, but on nodosa each has really four or five, 

 the outer or the two outer ones being smaller, more posterior, 

 and even more broken up into granules than the others. The 

 antennae were described as flavous-brown, and are figured as 

 considerably paler than on nodosa; the figure also represents 

 the costae as starting almost in a line, whereas on nodosa the 

 one near the suture is considerably in advance of the others; 

 the figure also represents the elytra as being arcuate towards 

 and obtusely bimucronate at apex, but these m?.y be artistic 

 exaggerations. Wiiilst not stating definitely, therefore, that 

 the names are synonymous, I consider it probable that if the 

 type, or an authenticated specimen of either, could be com- 

 pared with the other type, they would be found to be iden- 

 tical. In any case I believe them to be absolutely congeneric, 

 and, as nodosa appears to have been correctly referred to 

 'Gelojjtera, that the genus Terillus cannot be maintained. ^^"^^ 



(87) Of the other species referred to Terillus, vittafAts, Baly, is 

 synonymous with Geloptera nodosa; squamosus, Baly (certainly), 

 pevple.xus, Baly, and duhoulayl, Baly (probably), belong to 

 Megasceloides; foveolatus, Baly, is a Tomyris; porosus, Jac, 

 micans, Blackb., politus, BlacklD., and carinatus, Blackb., belong 

 to Alittus; and suturalis, Blackb., to Edusa. 



