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'depression near base: with somewhat irregular rows of not 

 very large punctures, shagreened throughout. Pyr/idium 

 shagreened and with a vague median line. Front tibiae with 

 an acute apical tooth only, three basal joints of front tarsi 

 inflated and (as also the fourth) with dense white setae on 

 under-surface. Length, 8-lOi mm. 



9 . Differs in having the head smaller, sides of clypeus 

 more strongly rounded, the projecting tips much smaller, 

 abdomen more convex, legs shorter, with the front tarsi not 

 ^dilated and not spongiose. 



Hob. — Western Australia: (old collection), Cunderdin 

 (Western Australian Museum), Mullewa (Miss J. F. May). 

 Type, I. 5757. 



In Blackburn's table would be associated with furcnta, 

 from which /as from all other Western Australian species) 

 it is distinguished by the conspicuously narrowed clypeus of 

 the male, and finely shagreened and curiously clothed pro- 

 notum. The male of masiersi has the sides of the clypeus 

 more rounded, the prothorax with large shallow punctures 

 on the sides, and the pygidium not tufted, with the clothing 

 elsewhere different. On two of the specimens the pronotum 

 is more conspicuously coppery than the other parts. The 

 long white scales on the etytra of specimens in perfect con- 

 dition form a row on each interstice, but a very slight amount 

 of abrasion causes them to appear irregularly distributed, 

 they give the elytra (to the naked eye) a curiously speckled 

 appearance; on all the specimens the base of the prothorax is 

 ma rained with scales : on two males the scales form three 

 conspicuous longitudinal lines and two feeble ones, with a few 

 scattered about irregularly; on another male they are 

 irregular, but on the only female before me the longitudinally 

 disposed scales are confined t'o a conspicuous median line and 

 the margins (on the latter they are mixed with numerous 

 long hairs), the disc between being quite glabrous. The 

 pygidium is glabrous on the upper portion and sides, but 

 with dense hairs at the tip, and these, mingling with those 

 at the tip of the abdomen, give it a tufted appearance ; it 

 is without trace of a foveate impression in either sex. 



DlPHUC EPIIALA INSULARIS, 11. Sp. 



d" . "Bright metallic-green, or coppery-green, tarsi blue 

 or purple, antennae, palpi, and under-surface of tips of 

 clypeus black. Moderately clothed with stramineous depressed 

 setae, on the elytra having a somewhat lineate appearance; 

 denser and paler on the under-surface and pygidium, but the 

 latter glabrous at tip. 



