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Head shagreened, and with crowded, large, shallow 

 punctures; clypeus with tips largely produced, rounded on 

 their inner and almost straight on their outer sides, the 

 dividing notch wide. Prothorax moderately transverse, base 

 not much wider than apex, front angles acute, sides acutely 

 angulate in middle, with a wide, simple, and rather shallow 

 basal depression, suddenly narrowed towards apex, lateral 

 depressions deep and vaguely traceable to median one ; with 

 rather dense, large, shallow, shagreened punctures, denser in 

 depressions than elsewhere. Scutellum polished at base, 

 shagreened elsewhere. Elytra shagreened throughout, and 

 with more or less regular rows of moderately large punctures. 

 Front tibiae with a rather light subapical tooth in addition 

 to the apical one; front tarsi spongiose. Length, 5|-6 mm. 



9 • Differs in having the clypeus more conspicuously 

 divided into two parts by a transverse carina, the front part 

 more polished, the tips shorter and much less elevated, 

 abdomen more evenly convex, and legs shorter, with front 

 tarsi thinner and not spongiose. 



Hob. — Queensland: Stradbroke Island (Dr. A. Jefferis 

 Turner, H. Hacker, and Queensland Museum's No. 313). 

 Type, I. 4494. 



In some respects close to the description of rectipennis, 

 but smaller and sides of elytra no straighter than in 

 pulchella; but Blackburn would probably have associated it 

 with spencei in his table; from the species so identified by 

 him it differs in being smaller, elytra finely shagreened as 

 well as punctured, lateral armature of prothorax more con- 

 spicuous, and front tibiae with dentition less conspicuously 

 (or not at all) reddish. Its size is about equal to that of 

 pygmaea, but the medio-basal depression of the pronotum 

 is not semi-double. The colour of the upper-surface of the 

 individual is almost uniform (although the pronotum, owing 

 to its punctures, has a slightly different shade to the naked 

 eye), but nine (four males and five females) of the specimens 

 are coppery-green and five (all males) are more or less 

 bluish-green. The tip of the pygidium is shining in both 

 sexes. 



A female from New South Wales (Dorrigo, W. Heron), 

 that appears to belong to the species, has the head and pro- 

 thorax more conspicuously green than the elytra and other 

 parts. 



CUNDERDINIA, II. g. 



Clypeus with side and front margins conspicuously 

 elevated, the latter very feebly incurved to middle. Antennae 

 composed of nine joints (three forming a club). Claws large, 



