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■downwards to about the basal fourth, then to be rather 

 strongly rounded, and then to be very gently arcuate to the 

 ^pex ; in consequence there appears to be a rather conspicuous 

 post-humeral swelling ; somewhat similar, but less pronounced, 

 ;swellings are to be seen on most species of the genus. 



Cleptoe, striatipectus, n. sp. 



<S . Brassy-green or bluish-green ; labrum and appen- 

 •dages reddish, tip of antennae infuscated. 



Head shallowly depressed between eyes, median line dis- 

 tinct ; with sharply defined punctures of moderate size, but not 

 quite evenly distributed. Flanks of prosternum conspicuously 

 but irregularly striated and impunctate. Fifth segment of 

 abdomen with a wide, shallow, irregular depression. Femo?'a 

 edentate ; tibiae with conspicuous ridges, the hind pair strongly 

 dilated near apex; basal joint of four front tarsi strongly 

 inflated. Length, 4|--5J mm. 



9 . Differs in having the hind tibiae regularly increasing 

 in width to apex, and in the tarsi and abdomen. 



i7«6.— Queensland: Dalby (Mrs. F. H. Hobler), Bris- 

 bane (A. J. Turner). Type, I. 3577. 



In general appearance close to the preceding species and 

 ~fco those herein commented upon as inermis, rufimanus , and 

 haroldi, but readily distinguished by the flanks of the proster- 

 num ; these are conspicuously impressed throughout with 

 oblique, longitudinal, or transverse striae, and are entirely 

 without punctures, although on the episterna the latter are 

 dense. There are seven specimens of the species before me, 

 ;and two of these have the sculpture of the pronotum and elytra 

 exactly as described in the preceding species, except that on 

 the apical slope of each elytron there is an additional distinct 

 stria adjacent to the subsutural one, and that the post-humeral 

 swellings are less conspicuous, these differences being common 

 to the seven ; but two of them have the prothoracic punctures 

 smaller and more rounded, and the elytral punctures smaller ; 

 on two others the prothoracic punctures are much as on that 

 species, but the elytral ones are distinctly larger and many 

 are transversely confluent ; the other (a female) has still larger 

 punctures, of which many are confluent, even on the apical 

 slope, where also the striae are more numerous and well defined. 

 One female has most of the body parts brassy, with the elytra 

 verging to brassy-purple. 



Cleptor caeruleus, n. sp. 

 S • Deep-blue, head with a greenish gloss, under-surface 

 and legs black, but parts of the latter obscurely diluted with 

 red ; palpi and antennae partly reddish. 



