862 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES, 



very confused iippearing different in different lights ; it is a dull 

 coppery purple, much brighter at the apex than in front, but in 

 some lights the middle of the disc near the front and an ill-defined 

 fascia just behind the middle api)ear blue; iu some specimens the 

 ground color appears to be brighter (especially towards the sides) 

 than in others. The head is very decidedly more convex than 

 that of N". lateralis, with the longitudinal furrow deeper and the 

 piincturation not quite so close or rugose The prothorax scarcely 

 differs from that of N. lateralis (apart from its color, which is a 

 much more golden green), except in having somewhat more 

 distinct puncturation in addition to its strigosity. The transverse 

 wrinkling of the elytra is scarcely existent behind the middle ; the 

 puncturation is very obscure being rather sparing, coarse and 

 shallow, the punctures in some specimens appearing to be filled 

 up, and in some specimens the filling seems to protrude as though 

 the elytra were obscurely granulose rather than punctured. The 

 hind til)ia3 are lightly keeled externally in their apical two-thirds, 

 the keel bearing a fringe of close-set erect fine black hairs. 



Northern Territory of South Australia ; collected by Mr. J. P. 

 Tepper. 



CiSSEIS ELONGATULA, Sp.nOV. 



Angusta ; supra obscure cupreo-nigra, capite roseo-cupreo ; 

 subtus lenea sat nitida, elytris et prothoracis lateribus albo- 

 maculatis ; capite subplano, subopaco, longitudinaliter leviter 

 sulcato, sat fortiter nee crebre nee rugose punctulato ; prothorace 

 transversim sul)tiliter strigoso ; elytris squamose sat crasse punctu- 

 latis, antice et latera versus transversim rugatis, apicem versus 

 serratis ; corpore sulitus obscure (prosterno crassius) squamose 

 l)unctulato. [Long. 2h lines, lat. i line. 



The head is nearly flat with a distinct dorsal furrow, and is opaque 

 of a bright rosy color, and its puncturation is rather large and 

 moderately close, very clearly defined, but not deep or rugose, the 

 punctures very little co ifused by transverse wrinkles ; the head is 

 very like that of C. roseo-ciiprea, Hope, but more strongly 

 punctured. The prothorax is a little more than a third as wide 



