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Hob. — Queensland : Blooinfield River (C. French) , 

 Endeavour River (Macleay Museum), Cairns (C. J. Wild, in 

 Queensland Museum), Mackav (R. E. Turner, in National 

 Museum). 



With the general outlines of elongatula, but markings 

 very different, and pygidium truncated instead of acutely 

 pointed. On two small specimens (both males) the front legs 

 are partly reddish. The head, and to a less extent the pro- 

 notum, has a conspicuous bluish iridescence; the elytra are 

 also sometimes iridescent; the under-parts, especially the 

 metasternum and abdomen, are brilliantly iridescent, the 

 prevailing colour being purplish. Each abdominal segment 

 appears to have a dark spot on each side, but this is due 

 mostly, or entirely, to the partial absence of pubescence. 

 On the pronotum the dark pubescence forms a rather wide 

 median vitta and a large spot on each side, but the silvery 

 pubescence defining the spots is more conspicuous on some 

 specimens than on others. On the elytra the black pubescence 

 usually has a purplish or bluish gloss, the paler markings 

 on four specimens consist of a postmedian fascia of 

 stramineous pubescence not quite touching the sides ; between 

 the fascia and the base some irregularly-distributed pubes- 

 cence is loosely compacted to form a subtriangular space, or 

 to form two very irregular fasciae; on two other specimens 

 the postmedian fascia is very feeble and ill-defined, and the 

 pale pubescence towards the base is much sparser, although 

 loosely compacted ; the pygidium has silvery pubescence at 

 the base and on the sides to beyond the middle 



MORDELLA CHRYSOPHORA, n. sp. 

 PI. xiv., fig. 93; pi. xv., fig. 124. 



Black; spurs to hind tibiae reddish at tips. Pubescence 

 black, variegated with numerous golden spots. 



Moderately robust. Pygidium long and acutely pointed. 

 Spurs to hind tibiae of equal length. Length, 11 mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Dorrigo (R. J. Tillyard). 

 Type (unique), in Queensland Museum. 



The disposition of the elytral spots is somewhat like that 

 of IJf-maculata, notability, and multiguttata , although not 

 exactly the same, but the prothoracic markings are very 

 different to those of the two first-named species, and less in 

 number than those of the third. On the head the pubescence 

 is somewhat golden in front, but is conspicuously golden on 

 a transverse spot at each side of the base; on the sides and 

 apex of the pronotum there are a few golden hairs, but there 

 are eight conspicuous spots, of which four form a series across 

 the apical third, and four form a semicircular series, of which 



