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elytra with punctures quite as crowded about base as else- 

 where, instead of sparser and larger there ; two of them 

 have the extreme base of prothorax and sides of elytra near 

 base obscurely reddish. They all have the beautiful bluish 

 iridescence noted in the original description. 



Emenadia punctulaticeps, Blackb. 



On the hind tarsi . of this species- the second joint is 

 slightly longer than wide, and has a three-sided appearance, 

 the upper side being bounded by acute ridges, the lower sides 

 meeting in a rounded ridge at the middle, the joint being 

 somewhat similar to that in diversiceps. The species occurs 

 in Western Australia (Beverley) and New South Wales (Gal- 

 ston and Sydney) as well as in South Australia, and a specimen 

 from Victoria agrees perfectly with the variety described by 

 Blackburn. One specimen from Sydney is unusually small (7 

 mm.), and has a rather small, rounded, subflavous spot on 

 the middle of each elvtron at about the basal fourth. 



Emenadia nigroapicalis, n. sp. 



9 . Bright castaneo-flavous ; apical two-fifths of elytra, 

 metasternum (except epimeron), antennae (except two basal 

 joints), and legs (except claws) black, part of muzzle and 

 base of elytra infuscated. 



Head with scattered and not very large but sharply- 

 defined punctures, becoming crowded between bases of 

 mandibles, labrum long and thin. Pro thorax longer than 

 wide, front half rapidly sloping downwards, medio-basal lobe 

 conspicuously elevated and transversely notched ; with fairly 

 numerous shallow punctures. Elytra each with a wide, deep, 

 and (except posteriorly) impunctate impression from base to 

 near apex, elsewhere with fairly numerous punctures, but 

 becoming sparser about base. Second joint of hind tarsi 

 slightly thicker, but otherwise much the same as third. 

 Length, 10-12 mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Ankertell (H. W. Brown); 

 South Australia: Ooldea (Capt. S. A. White and A. M. Lea). 

 Type, I. 5912. 



Differs from novnehollandiae in the absence of elytral 

 spots, by the prothoracic punctures being much smaller and 

 sparser, and by the elytral punctures being niore evenly dis- 

 tributed on the sides. The hind angles of the pronotum from 

 above seem rather acute, but from perpendicular to themselves 

 they are seen to be rectangular. The medio-basal lobe of the 

 pronotum has the same curiously broken-off appearance, and 



