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with a small but distinct apical fovea. Femora stout, eden- 

 tate ; tibiae not longitudinally canaliculate ; basal joint of four 

 front tarsi inflated. Length, 2J-2J mm. 



9 . Differs in having the upper-surface entirely brassy, 

 abdomen more convex and non-foveate, and in the tarsi. 



Hah. — Western Australia: King George Sound (British 

 Museum, from C. Darwin, and Macleay Museum), Karridale, 

 Swan River (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 3648. 



A minute insect, in general appearance very close to 

 Rhinoholus nitidus, but differing very considerably in the 

 clypeus and labrum ; these were regarded by Blackburn as 

 the most characteristic features of the genus; both sexes also 

 are very similar to those of Edusoides pulcher, but the tibiae 

 are without the conspicuous apical process of that species, 

 and the elytra are entirely glabrous ; on the whole it appears 

 better to refer the species to Cleptor rather than to any other, 

 as I am averse to proposing a new one for its reception j the 

 comparatively long second joint of antennae is aberrant. In 

 the table, although associated with higener, it is really not 

 very close to that species. The dark parts of the appendages are 

 the apical joint of each palpus, parts of the basal and of the 

 six (or less) apical joints of antennae, the claw joints, and 

 the knees ; but the knees also have a metallic green gloss. The 

 male in the Macleay Museum has the scutellum conspicuously 

 brassy, but on the type it is green. The type female has the 

 abdomen malformed, as the fourth segment, although normal 

 on the right side, is suddenly pinched out before it reaches 

 the left side, its place there being taken by an enlarged portion 

 of the third segment. 



Cleptor tersus, n. sp. 



d" . Bright metallic-green ; labrum and appendages 

 flavous. 



Head flat between eyes; shagreened and with dense and 

 rather small asperate punctures ; clypeus elongate, shagreened 

 and impunctate ; labrum very short. Protliorax about twice 

 as wide as median length, sides lightly rounded ; shagreened 

 and densely and minutely punctate. Elytra very little wider 

 than prothorax, with fairly dense punctures of moderate size, 

 larger behind shoulders than elsewhere, the interspaces with 

 rather dense minute ones ; apical slope lightly striate. Flanks 

 of prosternum finely striate, and with some scattered punc- 

 tures. Femora edentate ; tibiae not longitudinally canalicu- 

 late, basal joint of four front tarsi rather lightly inflated. 

 Length, 2 J mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia. Type (unique), in Macleay 

 Museum. 



