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obscure metallic colour, the abdomen finely punctured ; legs 

 fulvous, the base of the tibise more or less black; prosternum 

 elongate, raised anteriorly and truncate. 



Hah. N. S. Wales. 



This species has the claws more appendiculate than bifid but 

 agrées in other respects with Stethomela ; the colour of the antennse 

 foveolate punctured elytra and the fulvous legs will distinguish It 

 from any of its allies. I received two spécimens from Mr. Bang- 

 Haas and D"" Staudinger. 



Stethomela flavomarginata n. sp. — Flavous, a spot on the 

 head and at the hase of the thorax piceous, the latter punctured at the 

 hase only, elytra finely punctate-striate, metallic dark hlue, the 

 latéral margin and the epipleurœ anteriorly flavous, helow and the 

 legs flavous, claws hifid. — Lenglh, 9 mill. 



Head impunctate, flavous, the vertex with a piceous spot, antennse 

 not extending to the middle of the elytra, flavous, the terminal 

 joints more or less fuscous; thorax more than twice as broad as 

 long, the sides straight, the latéral margins perfectly straight at the 

 base, slightly rounded anteriorly, the surface impunctate, flavous, 

 closely and confluently punctured near the posterior angles, the 

 middle of the base with a small piceous or black spot ; scutellum 

 blackish; elytra regularly punctate-striate, the punctures indistinct 

 at the apex, metallic dark blue, the latéral margins flavous, this 

 colour not extending to the apex, their epipleurse flavous anteriorly, 

 metallic blue at the posterior portion, underside and legs flavous; 

 claws bifid ; prosternum raised and truncate anteriorly. 



Hah. Stephans Ort, New Guinea (Bajig-Haas). 



Stethomela marginata Jac. (Notes Leyd. Mus. vol. VI) from the 

 Arn Islands resembles the présent species in coloration, but belongs 

 probably to another genus, as the claws are simple. Baly in bis 

 diagnosis of the genus has not mentioned the structure of the claws 

 but in some of his types which I hâve examined, they are bifid. Of 

 the présent species I possess three spécimens of which one Is of a 

 darker fulvous colour and has another fulvous spot placed at the 

 middle of the elytral basai margin, but in other respect the spécimen 

 agrées with the others. 



Stethomela fulvitarsis n. sp. — Below piceous, ahove greenish 

 and violaceous œneous, the antennœ, palpi and the tarsi fulvous; 

 thorax finely and rem,otely punctured, elytra finely punctate-striate, 

 the sides with two or three foveœ; claws appendiculate. — Length, 

 10 mill. 



Of strongly convex shape, dark aeneous, the thorax with a 

 greenish, the elytra with a violaceous tint, the head Impunctate, the 



