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Of the size of Iieroni, but darker and with very different 

 hind tibiae of the male, these being notched much as on simili& 

 and 2}arvidens. In some lights the impunctate spaces on the 

 head are conspicuously brassy; the legs are of an unusually 

 bright-red. The tip of the abdomen, although red in the 

 female, is less conspicuously so than on the male. The elytral 

 punctures are nearly all isolated, but a few of them from 

 some directions appear to be feebly transversely confluent. 

 The sexual differences are sufficiently distinct, but less pro- 

 nounced than usual, especially with the tarsi, the basal joint 

 of the four front ones of the male being but little larger than 

 the corresponding ones of the female. On one specimen the 

 sides of the prothorax are very feebly undulated in the middle, 

 but on all the others they are evenly rounded there. 



COLASPOTDES FOVEIVENTRIS, n. Sp. 



PI. viii., fig. 142. 



(S . Of a vivid golden-green, labrum and appendages 

 reddish-flavous. 



Head uneven between eyes ; with dense and fairly large 

 punctures there, becoming denser and smaller on clypeus, and 

 denser and sparser elsew^here ; with an impunctate elevated 

 space near each antenna, median line and clypeal sutures well 

 defined. Antennae rather long and thin, third and fourth 

 joints subequal. Prothorax with irregularly distributed punc- 

 tures of moderate size. Elytra more robust than in elegantulay 

 but with very similar punctures. Flanks of jprosternum with 

 fairly numerous punctures about base, but sparse elsewhere. 

 Fifth segment of ahdonien not much shorter than fourth along 

 middle, and with a quite circular median fovea. Front femora 

 moderately dentate ; hind tibiae with apical third suddenly 

 and strongly dilated on lower-surface, and with a long apical 

 bristle; basal joint of four front tarsi inflated. Length, 

 5^-6^ mm. 



9 . Differs in having the abdomen more convex and 

 simple, and in the hind tibiae and four front tarsi. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns (Macleay Museum and F. P. 

 Dodd). 



On the female the under-surface is sometimes purplish 

 instead of green ; the antennae are sometimes slightly infus- 

 cated at the tip. A female from Kuranda, in Mr. Griffith's 

 collection, is of a bluish-purple, in some places with reddish- 

 purple reflections, and in others with brassy-green ones, the 

 two apical joints of its antennae are black. A male almost 

 similarly coloured is in the Macleay Museum. The clypeus. 



