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Notes on Some Miscellaneous Coleoptera, with 

 Descriptions of new Species. -Part Mi. 



By Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S., Museum Entomologist. 



\C ontribution from the South Australian Museum.] 



[Read June 14, 1917.] 



Plates XII. to XV. 



CICINDELIDAE. 



ClCINDELA ANTIQUA, n. sp. 

 PI. xii., fig 1. 



<S • Of a clull-golden colour, in places with greenish or 

 fiery-red gleams; labrum, mandibles (tips black), palpi (tips 

 metallic), and elytra (but. these with conspicuous markings) 

 milky-white; four basal joints of antennae metallic, the 

 others pale but lightly infuscated towards tip ; sterna golden- 

 green in middle, becoming golden at sides, abdomen light 

 castaneous, the sides paler. With dense white setae from apex 

 of sides of prothorax to beyond middle of sides of abdomen, 

 and more expanded on sides of metasternum than elsewhere; 

 similar setae on femora, four front coxae, and forming a 

 fringe at apex of prothorax. 



Head densely and finely corrugated, becoming sh a greened 

 in middle of base. Labrum moderately long, middle produced 

 and hooked, with four setiferous punctures near the margin. 

 Prothorax lightly transverse, apex bisinuate, with a bisinuate 

 impression near apex, another near base, and with a median 

 connecting line; surface densely and finely vermiculate or 

 coarsely shagreened. Scutellum with dense rugose punctures. 

 Elytra much wider than prothorax, sides near apex finely 

 serrated, each with a fine mucro at apex of suture; metallic 

 parts densely, coarsely, and angularly punctate,, especially 

 about base. Legs long; three basal joints of front tarsi 

 somewhat dilated, and densely clothed on one side of under- 

 surface. Length, 10 mm. 



Hah. — North-western Australia: Derby (W. D. Dodd). 

 Type (unique), I. 7541. 



Of the ypsilon group of the genus, from all of which it is 

 readily distinguished by the coarse elytral sculpture (more 

 than twice as coarse as in raffiesia). The metallic parts of 

 elytra are very irregularly distributed, and are not alike on 

 both sides; almost all the metallic parts of the upper-surface 

 are without gloss (much like old metal), but the front parts 



