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hind tarsi, when viewed from the outer side, appears to be 

 shorter than the second joint, but when viewed from the 

 inner side is seen to be slightly longer. On the male the 

 rami of the club are slightly longer than on the female, but 

 I can detect no other sexual differences. Numerous speci- 

 mens were obtained at lights. 



Haplonycha cara, n. sp. 



Deep- red and brightly iridescent; elytra (suture and 

 margins narrowly excepted) flavous. Sterna and legs with 

 dense, pale, golden hairs, a few hairs in lateral gutters of 

 pronotum ; elytra with membranous fringe very short ; 

 pygidium with rather sparse, short, semi-decumbent setae. 



Read with sharply denned punctures of moderate size, 

 nowhere confluent but more crowded about base of clypeus 

 than elsewhere; front face of clypeus in middle with a single 

 row of setiferous punctures, but more numerous on sides. 

 Antennae nine-jointed, the club three- jointed. Maxillary 

 palpi with penultimate joint slightly longer than ante- 

 penultimate, and distinctly shorter than apical. Prothorax 

 more than thrice as wide as long, sides strongly rounded, 

 front angles produced and acute, hind ones obtuse but not 

 rounded off ; punctures rather small and sparse. Elytra 

 almost parallel-sided ; geminate-striae distinct and close 

 together, but the pairs rather widely separated ; punctures 

 rather numerous and of moderate size, but absent or sparse 

 within the pairs of striae; suture very feebly mucronate. 

 Pygidium rather strongly convex, very finely wrinkled ; base 

 with small crowded punctures, becoming sparser towards the 

 tip. Basal joint of hind tarsi distinctly longer than second. 

 Length, 15-19 mm. 



Hah.— South Australia : Karoonda to Peebinga (G. E. H. 

 Wright), Murray River (H. S. Cope). Type, I. 4629. 



On dissection the penultimate joint of the palpi is seen 

 to be slightly longer than the antepenultimate, and,' as the 

 elytra are brightly iridescent, there need be no hesitation in 

 referring the species to CC, of Group 4, where it would be 

 associated with bella, from which it is at once distinguished 

 by its three- jointed club; in general appearance it is strikingly 

 close to some specimens of gracilis, but that species has a five- 

 jointed club. The antennae differ considerably in the sexes, 

 on the male the fifth joint is so closely and obliquely applied 

 to the fourth that it appears to be a narrow apical portion of 

 that joint; but on the female its distinction is at once evident, 

 and it appears to be even stouter than the fourth ; on the 

 female the club is distinctly shorter than on the male, and 

 conspicuously three- jointed, but on the male the last joint 



