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scutellum metallic-green, each elytron with a large irregular 

 flavous spot, commencing near the base and occupying most 

 of the basal third ; parts of under-surf ace conspicuously green, 

 legs varying from flavous to black, the femora more or less 

 conspicuously green ; parts of antennae and of palpi obscurely 

 flavous. Sides of under-surf ace with rather dense, whitish 

 hairs, elsewhere with scattered hairs ; upper-surface almost 

 glabrous. 



Head with crowded and sharply-defined but not very 

 large or deep punctures ; clypeal suture well defined ; labrum 

 gently incurved to middle. Prothora.r lightly transverse, 

 sides moderately rounded in middle, front narrowed, with the 

 front angles produced to about middle of eyes, hind angles 

 almost rectangular, median line feeble; punctures sharply 

 defined but not very dense. Scutellum except at tip with 

 rather dense punctures. Elytra at base the width of prothorax, 

 slightly dilated to beyond the middle; with irregularly dis- 

 tributed punctures of small size; striation feeble and irregu- 

 larly defined. Four front tarsi, each with two conspicuous 

 whitish lamellae between the claws. Length, 6^-7 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Dorrigo (H. J. Carter, from 

 R. J. Tillyard). Type, I. 6885. 



Much larger and very differently coloured to either of 

 the two previously-named species (macleayi and pictum). 

 Two specimens agree well in colour, a third has prothorax 

 flavous, with a metallic gloss and two large irregular infus- 

 cate vittae; its elytra are mostly flavous, with an irregular 

 purplish post-median fascia narrowly connected along the 

 sides with the shoulders; its sterna and legs are also mostly 

 flavous, but with a greenish gloss. 



MALACODERMID AE . 



Laius miraculus, n. sp. 

 PI. xii., fig. 2. 



d ■ Flavous or reddish-flavous ; two small spots at base 

 of head, two oblique elliptic discal spots on pronotum, each 

 shoulder, and a large somewhat curved patch towards apex 

 of each elytron, metasternum, hind tibiae, and tarsi, and tip 

 of hind femora, more or less metallic-green; tips of pygidium, 

 middle tarsi, arid apical half of antennae infuscated. Clothed 

 with short, sparse pubescence, and in addition (more notice- 

 ably on the elytra than elsewhere) with erect, blackish hairs. 



Head minutely punctate ; with a transverse semidouble 

 impression at base, and a smaller (and also semidouble) one 

 between eyes. Antennae short, first joint slightly longer than 

 second and third combined, second larger than third, but 



