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subangulate and lightly dentate ; tibiae longitudinally canali- 

 culate and dilated to apex, the front ones rather suddenly 

 narrowed near base. Length, 4-4 J mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: King George Sound. Type, 

 in Macleay Museum; co-type, I. 3649, in South Australian 

 Museum. 



A very beautiful species which it does not seem desirable 

 to leave unnamed, although there are but two females of it 

 before me. From some directions parts of the under-surface 

 appear more or less greenish, but from others the same parts 

 are scarcely different to the upper-surface. The sides of the 

 prothorax might quite fairly be regarded as strigose. The 

 upper apex of the four front tibiae, when viewed from along 

 the upper edge, appear to be triangularly notched. 



Alittus. 

 This genus is unsatisfactorily close to Colaspoides; indeed, 

 but for the clothing of the head and prothorax (and even this 

 is sometimes very slight), I should have referred all the species 

 in the Museum to that genus. Four of the species (micans, 

 carinatus, politus, and porosusj were previously referred to 

 Terillus. The species in the Museum may be thus tabu- 

 lated : — 



A. Prothorax with a distinct median channel ... porosus 



(? foveolafus) 

 A A. Prothorax with a distinct median carina ... madcaifi 

 AAA. Prothorax with neither distinct channel 

 nor carina. 



B. Elytra distinctly clothed scutellaris 



BB. Elytra with extreme tip only clothed, 

 and that very indistinctly. 

 O. Apical half of elytra with numerous 



disconnected tubercles rrigljoennis 



CO. Apical half without such. 



D. Size large micans 



DD. Size smaller politus 



Alittus foveolatus, Chp. 

 Terillus porosus, Jac. ( ?). 

 PI. vii., fig. 87. 



In these Transactions (Ante, 1898, p. 232) Mr. Blackburn, 

 from information received from Mr. Jacoby, noted these 

 names, together with T. micans, as being synonymous. But 

 if Jacoby had information leading him to consider foveolatus 

 and porosus synonymous, most certainly he was wrong in also so 

 treating micans ; although they all belong to the genus Alittus. 



A . foveolatus was described as from Port Denison and 

 figured (pi. cxviii., fig. 2) : the figure was not referred to at 



