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the head, especially towards the base, but on the type the 

 head is without such ; they differ also in the usual sexual 

 features of the abdomen and legs. The front of the prosternum 

 on all three specimens is metallic-green, but the colour regu- 

 larly alters till the tip of the abdomen is scarcely darker than 

 the legs, and is entirely without metallic gloss. The femoral 

 tooth is not large, but is very conspicuous from certain direc- 

 tions. 



Cleptor electus, n. sp. 



PL vii., fig. 92. 



c? . Bright brassy-green ; abdomen brassy, labrum and. 

 appendages reddish-flavous, but apical joint of antennae 

 almost entirely infuscated. 



Head with rather dense, sharply defined punctures of 

 moderate size, becoming confluent near eyes, and absent from 

 a small space near each antenna ; median line rather distinct. 

 Prothorax with sides oblique on basal half and then rounded 

 to apex ; with not very dense punctures of small or moderate 

 size. Elytra with fairly large punctures, becoming lineate in 

 arrangement and somewhat smaller towards suture, and larger 

 behind shoulders, whence, almost to middle of apical slope, 

 many are transversely confluent ; apical slope with well defined 

 and regular striae, except in middle. Flanks of 'prosternum 

 with moderately distinct, but not dense, punctures and striae. 

 Fifth segment of ahdomen shallowly depressed in middle. 

 Femora stout, front pair lightly dentate ; tibiae with fairly 

 strong ridges, hind pair less dilated at apex than the others; 

 basal joint of four front tarsi strongly inflated. Length, 

 3| mm. 



Bah. — Queensland: Coen River (W. D. Dodd). Type 

 (unique), I. 3583. 



A very beautiful species. The prothoracic punctures, 

 although not very large, are sharply defined, and are no denser- 

 (if as dense) on the sides than on the disc. 



Cleptor simplicipennis, Jac. (formerly Colaspis). 



A female of this species, sent for examination by Mr. 

 Arrow (it is probably a co-type, as it is labelled ''Somerset, 

 D'Albertis"), in general appearance is very close to electus, 

 but it differs from the type of that species in being somewhat 

 larger, head with much smaller and sparser punctures, pro- 

 thorax with' sparser punctures, and elytra with distinctly 

 sparser and smaller ones, fewer of the larger ones of which 

 are transversely confluent. Its eyes are feebly notched 

 (almost as feebly as in electus), and I consider it congeneric 

 with that species. Jacoby described the femora as unarmed,. 



