1478 FURTHER KOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
angulated in some examples (in some not symmetrically on the 
two sides), in other examples their lateral curve is scarcely sinuate. 
I see no reason to regard this insect as other than a true 
Colaspis. The anterior margin of its prothoracic episterna is not 
convex, the claws are appendiculate, the tibiae not emarginate 
externally, the prosternum is truncate behind, the lateral borders 
of the prothorax (in some examples at least) are distinctly and. 
subangularly undulous, the basal joint of the hind tarsi is equal 
to the following two together, the antennae are slender and a little 
more than half the length of the body, with the apical joints only 
very slightly compressed. The hinder four tibiae are channelled 
externally, the channel being deepened at the apex where the 
tibia is decidedly dilated, its external apical angle being well- 
defined and the apex itself obliquely truncate 
N. Territory of S. Australia ; taken by Mr. J. P. Tepper. 
Agetinus. 
A. ^QUALis, sp.nov. 
Ovalis; nitidus; aeneus; antennis fuscis, basi testaceis; pedibus 
testaceis, tibiis tarsisque plus minus infuscatis ; capite prothora- 
ceque subtUius, elytris sat fortiter, crebre punctulatis ; his vix 
manifeste quadri-costatis ; interstitiis subtiliter .sparsim punctu- 
latis. [Lottg- 2, lat. I5 lines (vixj. 
The elytral punc'uration has scarcely any tendency to run in 
rows and is close and moderately strong, the interstices among the 
punctures having a distinct system of very fi^ne and sparing punc- 
turation ; the elytral costfe are scarcely raised above the surface 
and would probably be quite untraceable were not the punctu- 
ration more or less interrupted by them. In some examples the 
underside is of a decided green colour. The sides of the prothorax 
are nearly straight and show no trace of dentation or unevenness. 
•Judging from M. Boisduval’s very succinct description of his 
A. ( Colaspis J Australis the present species differs from it in not 
being of a copper-colour, and in the hind lx»dy not being ferruginous. 
