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EUCOLASPIS TRANQUILLA, n. Sp. 



9 . Reddish-piceous with a slight metallic gloss ; head, 

 prothorax, scutellum, and parts of legs paler, basal half of 

 antennae (the apical half infuscated) and palpi still paler. 



Head with rather small and not very dense but clearly 

 defined punctures, becoming still smaller on clypeus ; a vague 

 depression between eyes. Antennae extending to about middle 

 of abdomen, second joint stouter and much shorter than third. 

 Prothorax about thrice as wide as the median length, with 

 irregularly distributed (but nowhere very dense) punctures of 

 moderate size. Elytra about one-third wider than prothorax, 

 shoulders rounded, sides parallel to apical third; punctures of 

 moderate size about base, becoming much smaller posteriorly. 

 Flanks of 'prosternum highly polished, but at base feebly 

 wrinkled. Front femora subangulate or very feebly dentate; 

 tibiae gently and regularly increasing in width to apex. 

 Length, 4 mm. 



Hab.— 'New South Wales: Ben Lomond, 4,500 feet (A. J. 

 Turner). Type (unique), I. 3617. 



A soberly-coloured species, the shades of colour not 

 sharply contrasted although distinct ; the slight metallic gloss 

 is of a bluish tone, and is more noticeable on the elytra than 

 elsewhere. In general appearance it is not at all close to the 

 preceding species, but in all generic characters it conforms 

 to same ; at first it would appear to belong to Bhyparida, but 

 it seems undesirable to refer to that genus any species whose 

 four hind tibiae are not notched. The type is a female, but 

 as the sexual characters of the genus are rather slight it has 

 been described. The elytral punctures are larger and more 

 crowded behind the shoulders than elsewhere, about the middle 

 they are in irregularly geminate series, on the apical slope 

 they are very small and in single rows; striation is distinct 

 only near the suture on the apical slope. 



Dermorhytis. 



The type of this genus is the Cinghalese D. igneofasciata 

 of Baly ; Baly later on referred to the genus D. apicalis, from 

 Borneo, which in 1885 was listed by Lefevre as an Ahiriis. 

 But Jacoby, in 1884, had described as a Dermorrhytis, D. 

 femoralis, from Queensland, stating that it was closely allied 

 to D. apicalis, and Lefevre listed it as a Dermorhytis. There is, 

 therefore, considerable doubt as to whether the species is a 

 Dermorliytis or an Ahirus, whilst its description reads much 

 as if founded upon a species of Geloptera, similar to such 

 species as scifula or angulicollis. Of femoralis the legs and 

 abdomen (except as to the colour of the former) were not even 



