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more or less blackish. Excluding the elytra and the append- 

 ages the colours of the specimens are as follows : — 



1. Head (upper half black), prothorax, mesosternum 

 (except epimeron), and abdomen reddish, other rjarts black. 

 Type. 



2. Like 1, but apical half of abdomen black. 



3. Like 1, but head entirely red, and apical two seg- 

 ments of abdomen black, metasternal epimeron red. 



4. Head, prothorax, mesosternum (but middle somewhat 

 infuscated), metasternal epimeron, and abdomen (tip ex- 

 cepted) red, other parts black. 



5. Like 4, but upper half of head black. 



6. Mesosternum and metasternum entirely black, other 

 parts red. 



7. Head (small parts of muzzle excepted), prothorax 

 (apex and base narrowly excepted), and under-surface (parts 

 of prosternum and mesosternum excepted) black. 



8. Like 7, but head obscurely reddish, and with an obscure 

 dark fascia between eyes and another on vertex, and pro- 

 thorax (except at base) entirely dark. In Queensland 

 Museum. 



9. Black, except for parts of mandibles and a narrow 

 flavous edging at base of pronotum. On this specimen the 

 elytral fascia is narrower and more flavous than usual. 



On all the specimens the black parts have a more or less 

 conspicuous bluish iridescence. 



Emenadia laeviceps, n. sp. 

 9 • Reddish-castaneous ; apical two-fifths of elytron and 

 a small part of base, antennae (basal joints excepted), and 

 most of legs black or blackish. 



Head shining and with minute scattered punctures, but 

 becoming dense between bases of mandibles ; a shallow depres- 

 sion in middle between antennae. Antennae with third-tenth 

 joints strongly serrated. Prothorax with sides very feebly 

 increasing in width from apex to about middle, and then 

 rather more strongly to base, medio-basal lobe wide, its tip 

 truncate ; with shallow, moderately dense, and fairly large 

 punctures. Elytra each with a rather shallow longitudinal 

 impression ; with dense punctures on basal half, becoming 

 crowded and with a laminate appearance posteriorly. Upper- 

 surface of second joint of hind tarsi about twice as long as 

 wide, subtriangular in transverse section. Length, 6^-11 mm. 



Hab. — Northern Queensland (Blackburn's collection). 

 Type, I. 5913. 



