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black posterior part, and the latter, on account of the faint 

 sculpture, is more nitid than the remainder of the elytral 

 surface. 



Eleale aenea, n.sp. 



Whole of upper-surface coppery, nitid, three apical joints 

 of antennae dull black, labrum with greenish reflections. 

 Clothed with long, black, erect hairs, more numerous on sides 

 and legs, where they are interspersed with white ones, 

 scutellum very scantily clothed with white pubescence. Under- 

 surface blue with greenish reflections, intermediate and pos- 

 terior coxae violet, clothed with long, shaggy, white hairs, 

 thicker at the sides than elsewhere. 



Read well produced in front, with a deep almost circular 

 depression between the eyes, and a more elongate one at the 

 base of each antenna; with close, fine punctures, individually 

 distinct on top and confluent towards forepart. Antennae 

 reaching to the base of prothorax, club five- jointed, joints 9 

 to 11 compressed, the apical one on the inside with a large, 

 but not deep, emargination, the outside rounded and with 

 the apex acute. Prothorax slightly narrower than the head 

 (including the eyes), longer than wide, subapical transverse 

 impression almost obsolete, subbasal one more distinct, sides 

 near the middle evenly rounded; disk flat, with a shallow 

 depression in the middle immediately in front of the base, 

 and one on each side near the middle; near apex with fine, 

 more or less distinct punctures, elsewhere transversely wrinkled. 

 ScuteMum almost circular and minutely punctured. Elytra 

 at base wider than prothorax and about thrice as long, sides 

 straight and parallel nearly to apex and then evenly rounded, 

 humeral angles slightly salient, and behind scutellum with a 

 large, round, and comparatively deep depression ; with close, 

 moderately large, deep, reticulate punctures, here and there, 

 transversely confluent, smaller at base and apex, but never- 

 theless quite distinct. Legs somewhat slender, posterior 

 femora not reaching apex of elytra. Length, 8 mm, 



Hab. — South Australia: Myponga (R. F. Kemp and A. 

 H. Elston). Type, in author's collection; co-type, I. 15248, 

 in South Australian Museum. 



Distinguished from E. aspera, Newm., by having the 

 sides of the prothorax dilated near the middle, the transverse 

 wrinkles on same coarser, and the punctures on elytra less 

 crowded and more reticulate. Very near E. reichei, Spin., 

 but with the antennae more slender, transverse wrinkles on 

 prothorax somewhat finer, and punctures on elytra much 

 smaller and more crowded. In scultpure very similar to 

 E. viridis, Guerin, but distinguished from it by its colour, 

 the club of the antennae more distinctly five-jointed, and the 

 transverse wrinkles on prothorax finer. 



