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■each with a strong acute tooth commencing before the middle. 

 Other characters much as in Diph i/cepJiala. 



The only species known at first glance appears to be 

 quite an ordinary piphucephala, but the extra joint to the 

 antennae and the very different claws and clypeus forbid its 

 beino- referred to that genus. 



CUNDERDINIA VARIABILIS, n. Sp. 



c? . Bright metallic-green, tibiae and tarsi purple, 

 antennae black, two basal joints reddish, two apical joints 

 of palpi black. Under-surface with dense white scales in 

 places, and with long straggling white hair, the legs also with 

 white hair, and the pygidinm with hair and scales, a few 

 white setae about apical parts of elytra, and moderated 

 ■ dense on clypeus, some straggling hairs at sides of prothorax. 



Head with densely crowded punctures, becoming still 

 more crowded on clypeus ; clypeus about once and one half 

 as wide as long, its suture with head straight, sides feebly 

 rounded and increasing in height to apex, which is very feebly 

 hilobed. Eyes with a small medio-frontal canthus. Antennae 

 short, first joint moderately long, second subglobular, third 

 and fourth each about the length of second, but much 

 thinner, fifth transverse and of irregular shape, sixth smaller 

 and still more transverse, lamellae of the club slightly shorter 

 than the eye. Prothorax at base slightly wider than the 

 median length, much wider than at apex, and very feebly 

 bisinuate, front angles acute and produced, hind angles 

 acute, each side at middle acutely produced, and inwards of 

 produced part with a foveate impression, a feeble median 

 line on basal half; with dense, round, sharply-defined punc- 

 tures of moderate size, becoming smaller and more crowded 

 on sides. Scutellum rather large, semicircular, convex, but 

 with apex flat and narrowly margined ; impunctate but feebly 

 rugose. Elytra very little wider than prothorax, sides very 

 feebly increasing in width to apex, where each is widely 

 separately rounded ; with crowded punctures of moderate or 

 fairly large size, and many transversely confluent. Pygidium 

 obtusely triangular and slightly longer than wide. Legs 

 long; front tibiae with a feeble outer tooth near the apex, 

 but the apical tooth long, curved, and acute ; tarsi longer 

 than tibiae, front ones with four basal joints, densely padded 

 with whitish setae on lower-surface, two basal joints rather 

 wide, third narrower, fourth as long as third but narrower, 

 fifth (with claws) almost as long as the rest combined. 

 Xength. 7^-8 mm. 



9 . Differs in having the clypeus slightly less elevated 

 in front, abdomen more convex, legs shorter, with the front 

 tarsi not spongiose on the lower-surface. 



