277 



gloss, suture and sides of elytra and apex of hind femora 

 infuscated. Head, prothorax, and under-surface with 

 moderately dense, short, silken pubescence. 



Read with small and dense, but not crowded punctures, 

 becoming subobsolete on front of clypeus ; median line well 

 defined in front, becoming feeble posteriorly. Second joint 

 of antennae about half the length of third. Prothorax with 

 rather strongly and evenly rounded sides ; surface somewhat 

 uneven, and with numerous punctures of moderate size, the 

 interspaces with minute punctures. Elytra distinctly wider 

 than prothorax; with rather large punctures, and with 

 numerous transverse or oblique ridges on basal half ; apical 

 half with series of irregular, depressed tubercles. Flanks of 

 prost ernum impunctate in middle, but with some fairly large 

 ones about base and apex. Femora edentate ; tibiae with 

 distinct but not very acute ridges. Length, 5|^-6 mm. 



//f/6.— Northern Territory: Darwin (G. F.^ Hill's No. 38). 

 Type, I. 3597. 



As on the preceding species, the elytra appear to be quite 

 glabrous until the tip is closely examined ; their sculpture, 

 however, approaches that of scutellaris, except that the series 

 of subtubercular elevations are more extended, and that the 

 transverse ridges or rugae on the basal half are more irregular, 

 being in places slightly elevated or subtuberculate ; from that 

 species also it differs in being smaller, paler, less metallic, 

 punctures smaller, etc. 



CoLASPis MUTicA, Germ. 



This species (unknown to Australian workers) was cata- 

 logued by Lefevre as belonging to Ediisa, without authority or 

 note beino; gfiven for the transfer. C . chn/surn and C . suaveola 

 of Germ.ar, described at the same time, certainly belong to that 

 genus, but miitica was noted as having unarmed femora and 

 glabrous upper-surface, so that its right to a position in the 

 genus is open to question. Judging by the description, it 

 seems close to Agetinus siibcosfafus, but as the head is 

 described as having scattered punctures, and as on sub cost atus 

 they are very dense, it is probably not that species. 



Edusoides pulcher, Blackb. 



PI. viii., fig. 158. 



The late Rev. T. Blackburn was in doubt when he 

 described this species as to whether some females really 

 belonged to the same species as the type male ; later he appears 

 to have been satisfied that they belonged to the species, as he 

 marked them, without a query, as co-types. One male and 



