860 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIOXS OF NEW SPECIES, 



The post-huraeral contraction of the elytra is quite as in 

 Cacochroa, and allows quite as much (as in that genus) of the 

 metasternum and hind coxae to be seen from above. The meso- 

 thoracic epimera also are conspicuously visible from above. 



This species does not appear to me to fall exactly into any of 

 the numerous genera of Australian Cetonice, but, as it has very 

 much the appearance of a Cacochroa, I have preferred to refer it 

 to that genus, and describe its structural characters fully, rather 

 than create a new genus. It differs from Cacochroa chiefly in 

 liaving the base of the prothorax a little inclined to be lobiform 

 in the middle (not so much as in Polystigma), and the hinder 

 angles of the same rounded off, while che former of those 

 characters, together with its deeply emarginate clypeus, <fec., &c., 

 separate it from Ap/ianesthes. The extremely strong post-humeral 

 contraction of the elytra will distinguish it from most of the 

 other genera which possess a long mesosternal process. 



Northern Territory of S. Australia ; taken by Mr. J. P. Tepper. 



BUPKESTID^. 



Neospades lateralis, sp.nov. 



Sat convexus ; capite prothoraceque laete viridibus, vix aureo- 

 niicantibus ; elytris obscure cupreo-aeneis, albo-maculatis, antice 

 hiteribus Isete viridibus; subtus aeneus vel viridis, abdominis lateri- 

 bus albo-maculatis ; capite confertim fortiter rugose punctulato ; 

 prothorace transver.sim strigoso ; elytris fortius vix crebre punctu- 

 latls, apicein versus subtiliter serratis ; corpore subtus sparsim 

 griseo-pubescenti, subtilius squamose (prostemo crasse fortius) 

 punctulato; tibiis posticis apicem versus tribus capillorura penicillis 

 instructis. Long. 4^ Hues, lat. 1} lines. 



The elytra are of a dull coppery teneous color. The spots of 

 white pubescence are on each elytron — two on the hinder part of 

 the lateral margin, and three or four near the suture in the hinder 

 two-thirds ; the green patch commences on the base and extends 

 slightly more than half way to the apex, occupying the external 



