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slope of each elytron. Flanks of 'prosternum with fairly larg& 

 and rather dense punctures. Fourth segment of ahdomen more 

 than twice the length of fifth along middle, and the sides much 

 longer, with a shallow median depression, fifth incurved to 

 middle of apex, and with a fairly large median depression. 

 Legs stout ; front femora feebly denta.te ; hind tibiae suddenly 

 and strongly dilated at apical third, the others rather strongly 

 but regularly dilated to apex; basal joint of four front tarsi 

 strongly inflated. Length, 6 J mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Somerset (C. French). Type (unique)^ 

 I. 3513. 



The hind tibiae are much as on fa?\salis, and in fact the 

 species appears to be intermediate between such species as 

 tarsalis and the preceding one. The legs are unusually stout, 

 from most directions the front femora appear to be edentate, 

 but from certain directions a subangulate swelling may be 

 seen to be topped by -a minute tooth ; this will distinguish the 

 species from Cleptor inermis, to which structurally it is very 

 close. Most of the under-surface has a greenish gloss, and in 

 some lights the scutellum also. The general outlines are much 

 as in the preceding species, but the punctures are very dif- 

 erent ; on the prothorax they are slightly denser on the sides 

 than on the disc, but they are nowhere confluent ; there is a 

 vague transverse depression behind each shoulder. The median 

 line on the head is fairly distinct only in front. 



Three specimens in the Macleay Museum (from Port 

 Denison) are possibly females of this species ; one is coloured 

 as the type, but the others are brassier ; they differ in having 

 the abdomen more convex, hind tibiae regularly dilated to 

 apex, and in the tarsi. 



COLASPOIDES PICTTPES, n. Sp. 



PL viii., fig. 162. 

 S . Black with a bronzy-green gloss, becoming brassy or 

 brassy-green on under-surface ; legs red, middle of femora 

 brassy-green, tarsi blackish, antennae testaceous, six apical 

 joints blackish. 



Head somewhat uneven between eyes, and with dense 

 punctures of moderate size there, becoming denser on clypeus, 

 and somewhat sparser towards base ; median line rather dis- 

 tinct. Antennae with joints proportioned as in acervata. 

 Prothorax with comparatively small and sparse, but clearly 

 defined punctures. Elytra with feeble rows of small punc- 

 tures, nowhere confluent, and of fairly large size only on an 

 irregular post-humeral depression, only one subsutural stria on^ 

 each elytron. Flanks of 2jroiiterm(m with rather large, evenly 



