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excepted), palpi, tips of mandibles, and pronotum more or less"- 

 deeply infuscated. Moderately clothed with short, depressed, 

 pale pubescence. 



Head wide and lightly concave in front; about base with 

 dense and moderately large punctures, smaller and sparser 

 elsewhere; mandibles bifid. Eyes rather large and deeply 

 notched. Antennae long and thin, eleventh joint scarcely 

 longer than tenth, and not semidouble. Prothorax slightly 

 longer than wide, widest near apex, base slightly incurved 

 to middle and narrowly upturned; with three moderately 

 large discal impressions : one towards each side in front, and 

 one in middle towards base ; with coarse and rather dense 

 punctures, denser and smaller on dilated parts than else- 

 where. Elytra distinctly wider than prothorax; each with 

 four lightly-elevated discal costae ; densely granulate-punctate. 

 Length ( <$ , 9), 12-15 mm. 



9 . Differs in being somewhat wider, eyes slightly 

 smaller, legs and antennae not quite so long, and tip of 

 abdomen strongly convex and not notched. 



Hab. — South Australia (Australian Museum): Murray 

 River (H. S. Cope). Type (d), I- 6658, in South Australian 

 Museum; co-types (9 9)> 38387, in Australian Museum. 



The elytra are coloured as on many specimens of puncta, 

 but the irregularly-clouded prothorax (on which the impres- 

 sions are different and punctures denser) and immaculate 

 head readily distinguish it from that species. The prothoracic 

 punctures are considerably coarser than on maritima, and 

 there are many other differences in sculpture and colour. The 

 elytra have a vague bluish gloss, the pale sutural portion 

 commences very narrowly near the base, and slightly dilates 

 to near the apex, near which it rather suddenly terminates. 

 On one of the specimens in the Australian Museum each 

 shoulder has an obscure flavous vitta. The infuscation of the 

 pronotum appears to be formed by four very obscurely-defined 

 longitudinal vittae or blotches. 



# COPIDITA MIRA, n. Sp. 



PI. xiii., fig. 53. 



d . Flavous ; sides of prothorax, elytra (suture ex- 

 cepted), abdomen, knees, tips of mandibles, and parts of palpi 

 more or less black. Closely covered with short, depressed, 

 whitish pubescence. 



Head rather long, convex between eyes, with several 

 vague depressions in front; with rather dense and sharply- 

 defined punctures of moderate size, but becoming smaller and 

 sparser in front, and almost absent from clypeus ; mandibles 

 bifid. Antennae long and thin, eleventh joint scarcely longer 



