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of the head are somewhat shining, and the parts below the 

 eyes are very bright. 



DlSTYPSIDERA PICTIPENNIS, n. Sp. 



9 . Black, with a greenish or purplish gloss, the purple 

 more pronounced on the under- than on the upper-surface; 

 basal joint of antennae, base of mandibles, palpi (tips 

 excepted), shoulders, base, and an interrupted median fascia 

 on elytra, and parts of the legs, more or less flavous. 



Head conspicuously corrugated between eyes, basal 

 portion convex and finely shagreened. Labrum with three 

 teeth (each marked by a setiferous puncture) on each side. 

 Antennae rather long and very thin. Prothorax slightly 

 longer than wide, with a conspicuous transverse impression 

 near apex, and another near base ; nowhere corrugated, but the 

 disc very finely wrinkled, the sides being quite smooth. Elytra 

 parallel-sided to near apex, where each is finely mucronate at 

 the suture; with dense and large punctures, becoming trans- 

 versely confluent only between median fascia and suture and 

 behind the fascia. Legs very long and thin. Length, 13 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Stewart River (W. D. Dodd). Type 

 (unique), I. 7533. 



In general appearance like parva, but larger, pronotum 

 with wrinkling practically absent, and tip of labrum different. 

 In Sloane's table parva is separated from gruti by the 'Palpi 

 pale testaceous" as against "Palpi with apical joints 

 black" ;(D this species would therefore (by that tabled appear 

 to be nearer to gruti, but it differs in being smaller, and with 

 the markings of the elytra with punctures as on the adjacent 

 spaces (as on flavicans, favipes, and parva), very different 

 to those of gruti, hacJceri, and volitans. The pale portions of 

 the elytra are a median fascia narrowed to the sides and 

 interrupted before the suture, and the shoulders with the 

 space adjacent to them both towards the suture, and in an 

 oblique direction from the medio-basal depression ; of the 

 legs the pale parts are the trochanters, parts of the coxae, 

 basal half and lower parts of the four front femora, and 

 rather more than the basal half of the hind femora. The 

 apical fifth of the elytra is conspicuously dark metallic-green, 

 but between it and the median fascia the derm is more 

 purplish, the two colours rather sharply limited. 



Megacephala australis, Chaud. 

 A specimen of this species from Adelaide has parts of the 

 four bind femora and tibiae deeply infuscated. There are 



0) On many specimens of parva in the Museum the ^apical 

 joints are quite as dark as on many of gruti. 



