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Head with crowded asperate punctures of moderate size, 

 becoming smaller towards base and very small on front of 

 clypeus; with several very feeble depressions. Eyes rather 

 large. Prothorax about thrice as wide as long; with rather 

 dense subasperate punctures of moderate size, becoming larger 

 and crowded on sides, the interspaces with minute punctures. 

 Scutellum with small, dense punctures. Elytra not much 

 wider than prothorax ; with rather dense and fairly large 

 punctures, larger behind shoulders than elsewhere, about 

 middle in subgeminate rows, and towards suture on apical 

 slope confined to distinct striae. Flanks of frostemum lightly 

 striated, and with scattered distinct punctures. Fifth segment 

 of ahdomen depressed in middle. Femora edentate ; tibiae not 

 longitudinally canaliculate, the hind ones rather suddenly 

 dilated about apex. Length, 3 J mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Gayndah (A. M. Lea). Type 

 (unique), I. 3618. 



I had this species associated with Eucolaspis tricolor, ready 

 to be described, before noticing that it was congeneric with 

 Cleptor chloropterus; the three species, in fact, are very 

 similar in appearance; but the present differs from the latter 

 species in its much larger eyes, larger and denser punctures, 

 unarmed front femora, and very different tibiae ; from tricolor 

 it differs in its much larger eyes, head with much denser punc- 

 tures, and in the tibiae. The four hind tibiae are feebly 

 incurved near the outer apex, but not distinctly notched as in 

 Ehyparida, nor are the elytral punctures, a few of which are 

 transversely confluent, as on any species of that genus. 



Cleptor minutus, n. sp. 



d . Metallic-green, in places with a slight coppery 

 gloss ; under-surface almost entirely coppery, labrum blackish, 

 appendages reddish, in parts infuscated. 



Head with fairly dense, sharply defined punctures of 

 moderate size ; clypeus very short, lateral sutures feeble, the 

 hind one obsolete; labrum very short. Antennae comparatively 

 short, second joint almost as long as first, and distinctly longer 

 than third, five apical joints rather wide. Prothorax scarcely 

 twice as wide as the median length, sides rather strongly 

 rounded, with dense punctures of moderate size, smaller in 

 middle than elsewhere. Elytra not much wider than pro- 

 thorax ; with fairly dense subasperate punctures of moderate 

 size, larger behind shoulders than elsewhere, and many trans- 

 versely confluent there, in places in feeble subgeminate rows, 

 interspaces with minute punctures; apical slope with distinct 

 striae only towards suture and sides. Flanks of prosternum 

 with numerous distinct punctures. Fifth segment of ahdomen 



