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except for a slight apical incurvature, is almost equilaterally 

 triangular. The prothoracic punctures are not much larger 

 towards the sides than on the disc, near the margins they are 

 very sparse. In the late Rev. T. Blackburn's collection a 

 specimen of the species was numbered 4412, and that number 

 was noted as Colaspoides xanthopus, but xanthopus struck 

 out ; I have, in fact, seen it in several collections as that species, 

 but it differs from it in the armed front femora, hind tibiae 

 ivith apical bristle, and in the different punctures. 



COLASPOIDES SUAVIS, n. Sp. 



9 . Of a vivid golden-green ; parts of under-surf ace 

 bluish-green, labrum and appendages flavous, but four apical 

 joints of antennae blackish. 



Head with fairly dense punctures of moderate size ; median 

 line in places well defined. Antennae rather long and thin, 

 third and fourth joints subequal. Prothorax with dense 

 punctures of moderate size, and mostly longer than wide, 

 denser on sides than on middle. Elytra with dense punctures 

 of moderate size, becoming smaller posteriorly, but crowded, 

 larger, and more or less confluent behind shoulders. Flanks 

 of prosternum with fairly large, crowded punctures. Length, 

 5J-5| mm. 



Hah. — Queensland (Macleay Museum), Coen River (W. 

 D. Dodd and H. Hacker). Type, I. 3511. 



This species might very well have been referred to Cleptor, 

 but as the front femora are strongly dentate, and eyes moder- 

 ately notched, it was referred to C olaspoides ; at first glance the 

 specimens appear as if they were small ones of the preceding 

 species, but the prothorax has much denser punctures, they are 

 also nearly all elliptic, and when viewed from the sides a few 

 appear to be vaguely confluent. One specimen has most of 

 the body-parts purple, with head and prothorax brassy-purple, 

 and scutellum and suture bluish. On parts of the elytra the 

 punctures appear to be in semi-double rows, but they do not 

 become condensed into distinct striae posteriorly, only one 

 subsutural stria being distinct on each elytron. 



COLASPOIDES PALLIDULA, n. Sp. 



d . Flavous. 



Head rather more convex than usual ; with fairly dense 

 punctures of moderate size between eyes, becoming denser on 

 clypeus, and sparser and smaller elsewhere, with an impunc- 

 tate elevated space near each antenna. Antennae moderately 

 long, third and fourth joints subequal. Prothorax more than 

 twice as wide as long, sides evenly rounded ; with irregularly 



