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loTit the front ones are each armed with a small tooth, although 

 this is invisible from most directions. 



Division J/.. 



Cleptor paradoxus, Blackb. (formerly Tomyris). 



Tomyris minor, Blackb. 



PI. viii., figs. 149 and 150. 



Specimens of paradoxus and minor, from the collection of 

 i:he late Rev. T. Blackburn, are in the Museum. They bear 

 his respective numbers, 1262 and 1263, and were both from 

 Port Lincoln. They appear to belong to but one species, the 

 former the female, the latter the male. In the table he gave 

 of Tomyris they were separated by the head being coppery in 

 paradoxus and bright-green in minor; but such differences in 

 the subfamily are common in the sexes, or even individuals, of 

 the majority of metallic species. 



They were referred with doubt to Tomyris; the tibiae of 

 paradoxus being described as ''intermediis leviter, posticis vix 

 perspicue, emarginatis," and "Its tibiae — although their ex- 

 ternal emargination is very feeble — are those of Tomyris." 

 Of minor he wrote, "The external emargination of the inter- 

 mediate and hind tarsi (^2) is a little stronger." But I cannot 

 consider them at all notched in th€ way that those of Tomyris 

 and Bhyparida are. The outer apex of each of the four hind 

 tibiae is slightly dilated, and in consequence the space before 

 it is slightly curved, but the curved portion is not bounded 

 Ijehind by a raised space (frequently dentiform), but runs on 

 to the general line of the tibia, as in the majority of genera; 

 moreover, the sloping apex has a tarsal groove. The complete 

 absence of clothing from the upper-surface, although in itself 

 not perhaps warranting generic separation, would be aberrant 

 in Tomyris. I consider the species to be certainly congeneric 

 "with Cleptor inerm,is. 



Cleptor coriaceus, n. sp. 



c; . Coppery-green and finely shagreened ; apical half of 

 abdomen brassy, labrum and appendages flavous, tip of 

 antennae infuscated. 



Head with small and not very dense but fairly distinct 

 punctures, median line feeble ; clypeus rather longer than 

 usual, and conspicuously notched in front. ProfJwrax with 

 sides conspicuously oblique from base almost to apex ; with 

 minute punctures. Elytra with feeble rows of small and 

 distant punctures, not very large even behind the shoulders ; 

 apical slope without distinct striae. Flanks of prosternum 



(92) Certainly in error for tibiae. 



