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more noticeably on the basal segment of the abdomen of the- 

 male than elsewhere. The male has an abdominal fovea but 

 it is much smaller and shallower than that of the female, 

 and the abdomen is otherwise different. One male has the 

 head and prothorax entirely bright red; and one female has; 

 the elytra purple. 



C Elytra and ^prothorax entirely dark. 

 C. 1. Legs more or less redA^) 



DlTROPIDUS OBLONGIPENNIS, n. Sp. 



d" . Coppery, sometimes coppery-green; labrum, anten- 

 nae (club infuscated), palpi, and legs (claws infuscated) red. 

 Head, under-sarface, and legs with rather sparse white 

 pubescence. 



Head with dense and sharply-defined punctures, but 

 also shagreened; median line shallow. Eyes very widely 

 separated. Frothorax more than twice as wide as the median 

 length; with dense and rather coarse punctures, becoming 

 frequently confluent (or substrigose) on sides. Elytra oblong, 

 slightly more than twice the length of the prothorax along, 

 middle; with rows of fairly large punctures, on the sides set 

 in distinct striae ; interstices slightly wrinkled near sides, 

 elsewhere with minute punctures. Legs rather stout. Length 

 (d", 9), 2-75-3-25 mm. 



9 . Differs in being more robust, ej^is more distant, 

 median line of head more distinct, club and legs thinner, 

 sides of prothorax more strongly rounded, elytra parallel- 

 sided almost throughout (on the male feebly decreasing in 

 width posteriorly), and abdomen larger, with a large, round, 

 deep, apical fovea. 



Hah. — Tasmania (Blackburn's collection) : Fraiikford 

 (J. J. Towers), Launceston (on PuUenaea, Aug. Simson's, 

 No. 2585), Hobart (on ''wattle" foliage in August, H. H, D. 

 Griffith); Victoria: Alps (Blackburn's No. 4818); New 

 South Wales: Forest Reefs (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 10982. 



I have known this species for a long time as paHus, but 

 in error; a cotype of that species (marked "type") in the 

 Blackburn collection has small punctures on the middle of 

 the prothorax, and at the apex and sides is densely strigose, 

 the present species has dense and (for the genus) coarse 

 punctures (much coarser than on the cotype) and the middle 

 of its apex is not strigose, the sides are strigose but not so 

 densely or finely, many of the strigosities being really due 

 to confluence of punctures. From ochropus it differs in the 



(4) On some described varieties entirely dark. 



