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Emenadia setipennis, n. sp. 



<$ . Black ; two basal joints of antennae, palpi, and parts 

 of legs reddish, elytra flavous, a narrow part at the base, 

 the suture very narrowly, and the apical sixth blackish. 



Head polished and with very minute scattered punctures, 

 but becoming somewhat crowded between bases of mandibles ; 

 back slope finely rugose. Prothoraa: with sides very feebly 

 increasing in width to near base, but hind angles more notice- 

 ably (although not strongly) diverging, medio-basal lobe rather 

 wide, its tip truncate ; with fairly large, shallow, and moder- 

 ately dense punctures. Elytra each with a rather shallow 

 longitudinal impression ; punctures fairly dense about base, 

 becoming crowded and sublaminate posteriorly. Second joint 

 of hind tarsi transverse in cross section, its upper-surface fully 

 twice as long as wide. Length, 5-6 mm. 



Hob. — Northern Queensland (Blackburn's collection): 

 Brisbane, February, 1916 (II. Hacker, in Queensland 

 Museum). Type, I. 5915. 



There is a beautiful rainbow-hued iridescence on both 

 specimens, and the short blackish setae on the elytra are more 

 noticeable than on most species of the genus. On the type 

 the hind angles and the median lobe of the pronotum are 

 very narrowly tipped with red, and parts of the mandibles 

 are obscurely red ; the obscurely-reddish parts of the legs 

 are the greater portions of the front ones, parts of hind tibiae 

 and tarsi, and all the tibial spurs. The specimen from Bris- 

 bane has the four hind legs missing, but the front femora and 

 tibiae are black, the tarsi obscurely reddish ; its elytra have 

 more of the apex and less of the base black, and the suture 

 scarcely infuscated. 



EvANIOCEPvA. 



In tabulating the species of this genus Blackburn noted 

 the males of three species as having nine rami to each 

 antenna, and two others as having eight ; to the first group 

 also a fourth species was afterwards added. As a matter of 

 fact, the rami for the groups should be regarded as eight and 

 seven in number, as he counted the long terminal joint of 

 each antenna as a ramus ; the rami in the first group com- 

 mence with the third joint, and in the second group with 

 the fourth. 



Evaniocera nervosa, Gerst. 



The dark lines on the elytra of this species are much 

 more conspicuous on some specimens than on others. The size 

 ranges from 6£ to 9 mm. On the female the antennae are 

 thin, the third joint is very little longer than the second 

 (from some directions the third appears to be distinctly longer 

 than the second, but from almost every point of view it 



