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apex and partly to clothing, but true subapical notches (as in 

 Rhyparida) are absent. 



Trypocolaspis punctatostriata, n. sp. 

 PI. viii., fig. 152. 



d" . Metallic ; under-surface black, tip of abdomen some- 

 times diluted with red, labrum and appendages more or less 

 reddish. 



Head much as on hiinipressa. Prothorax much the same, 

 except that the two circular depressions are much more feeble. 

 Elytra punctate-striate. Fifth segment of abdomen with a 

 transverse median fovea. Hind tibiae gently increasing in 

 width from base to apex, but the latter somewhat angular. 

 Length, 2^-3 mm. 



9 • Differs in having the abdomen more convex and non- 

 foveate. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cairns district (A. M. Lea), Moss- 

 man River (Macleay Museum), Kuranda (H. H. D. Griffith 

 and H. J. Carter, from G. E. Bryant). Type, I. 3600. 



It is not always easy to distinguish small females of this 

 species from large ones of biimpy^essa, although the elytral 

 sculpture is more regular ; but the males are readily distin- 

 guished by the hind tibiae (see figs. 151 and 152), and by 

 the four front tarsi; the basal joint of each of these on the 

 present species is but slightly larger than on the female, instead 

 of being conspicuously inflated. From the preceding species, 

 which has somewhat similar hind tibiae, it differs in the sculp- 

 ture of elytra, colour of legs, and abdomen of male. The 

 general colour is more or less brassy, sometimes brassy-green, 

 and sometimes almost golden-red (but seldom brilliantly so) ; 

 the head and prothorax are usually uniformly coloured ; on the 

 elytra there are irregularly disposed blotches or streaks, 

 usually more or less purplish, but shading off to various other 

 tints, and seldom exactly alike on any two specimens ; the 

 margins are nearly always bluish, but are occasionally green ; 

 one specimen has the elytra of a bright green with coppery-red 

 markings ; the antennae are usually flavous at the base, becom- 

 ing darker, but seldom distinctly infuscated, towards apex ; 

 the palpi are pale-flavous. The elytral punctures are well 

 defined, although somewhat smaller than on the preceding 

 species, and are in regular rows, the striae in which they are 

 set are everywhere well defined, and the interstices separating 

 them are regularly elevated and quite uniform, except at the 

 extreme base, on the sides behind the shoulders, and about the 

 apex, but no interstice is conspicuously elevated above its 

 fellows. 



