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with red. The sexual differences, apart from a greater con- 

 vexity of the abdomen in the female, are but slight. 



Var. A. Four specimens from Windsor differ from the 

 typical form in being of a dark metallic-green, with the 

 femora rather deeply infuscate in middle and with a greenish 

 gloss. 



Geomela bifoveata, n. sp. 



Black, with a slight bronzy gloss, under-surface (includ- 

 ing elytral epipleurae) more or less conspicuously diluted with 

 red, appendages almost flavous, but apical half of antennae 

 lightly infuscated. 



Head with very small punctures; a fairly large but not 

 sharply denned and somewhat oblique fovea close to the base 

 of each antenna. Antennae moderately long and rather thin, 

 first joint (excluding a short basal portion) globular, third 

 slightly longer than fourth and fifth combined, the others 

 gently increasing in width, but none transverse. Prothorax 

 almost four times as wide at the base as the median length; 

 with numerous small but distinct punctures, rather larger 

 about base than elsewhere. Elytra with regular rows of 

 fairly large punctures; the interstices with rather sparse and 

 small but fairly distinct ones. Inter-coxal process of pre- 

 sternum gently convex, dilated at each end. Abdomen with 

 basal lamellae large and rounded posteriorly. Length. 

 3^-3*- mm. 



Bab. — Tasmania: Mount Wellington, in moss -(H. H. D. 

 Griffith), Hobart, in moss, Latrobe, in flood debris (A. M. 

 Lea). Type, I. 5668. 



From some directions the cephalic foveae appear to be 

 feebly connected, but from most directions they seem to be 

 completely isolated. The elytra are rather more convex and 

 with the sides more strongly rounded than on blachburni. 



A specimen, from the old collection, differs in having the 

 cephalic foveae more pronounced, upper-surface almost with- 

 out punctures (except for the seriate ones on elytra), but 

 those on the abdomen rather more distinct, the antennae are 

 distinctly longer and thinner, but the proportionate lengths of 

 the joints are the same. It possibly represents a new species, 

 but being without a locality label it is undesirable to describe 

 it as such. 



Geomela circumflava, n. sp. 



Black, with a coppery gloss; front of head, sides of 

 prothorax and of elytra (including epipleurae), and a stripe 

 on each side from apex almost to summit of apical slope on 

 third interstice conspicuously flavous; under-surface dark 

 reddish-brown, becoming paler outwardly; appendages more 

 or less flavous. 



