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The uniformly metallic head and elytra, with reddish, 

 non-maculate prothorax, will readily distinguish this species 

 from all others known to me, except dentipes, pulchra, and 

 appendiculata, from all of which it differs in its larger size 

 and (except for the front coxae) entirely dark legs. The 

 apical joint of the palpi is large and with a feeble notch near 

 the outer apex on both sexes. The transverse depression at 

 the base of the pronotum is sometimes isolated, but occasion- 

 ally connected with two feeble medio-discal depressions. 



COPIDITA APPENDTCULATA, n. Sp. 



PI. xiii., fig. 54. 



(3 . Blackish and flavous. Clothed with short, sub- 

 depressed, ashen pubescence. 



Head rather strongly convex; about base with dense and 

 sharply-defined punctures, smaller and sparser elsewhere; 

 mandibles bifid. Eyes large, prominent, and very feebly 

 notched. Antennae long and thin, eleventh joint slightly 

 longer than tenth and simple. Apical joint of maxillary 

 palpi rather large, outer side distinctly incurved, and at base 

 with a conspicuous appendix. Prothorax distinctly longer 

 than wide, sides rather strongly dilated near apex, base 

 narrowly upturned, with a fairly large medio-basal depres- 

 sion, and a smaller and shallower one towards each side in 

 front; punctures rather small and dense only on sides. Elytra 

 about twice as wide as narrowest part of prothorax, with very 

 vague remnants of discal costae ; densely granulate-punctate. 

 Tip of abdomen wide and very gently Insinuate. Legs long 

 and thin. Length, 6| mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Tweed River (Blackburn's 

 collection). Type (unique), I. 6660. 



The type (the female probably has simple palpi) has a 

 conspicuous appendix to the apical joint of the palpi, the 

 appendix being almost as long as the penultimate joint, but 

 distinctly thinner; it is somewhat as on the male of sloanei, 

 but the two species are otherwise very different. The flavous 

 parts are the clypeus, labrum, base of mandibles, and middle 

 of under-surface of head, prothorax (except for an infuscate 

 spot on each side at the apical third), scutellum, mesosternum, 

 part of metasternum, femora, labial, and parts of maxillary 

 palpi. 



COPIDITA INTERRUPTA, n. Sp. 



(S . Of a dingy pale flavous, with parts infuscated. 

 Densely clothed with short, depressed, pale pubescence. 



Head rather long, obliquely flattened between eyes ; with 

 dense and sharply-defined but not very large punctures ; 

 labrum large, with sharply-defined punctures ; mandibles bifid. 



