BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 
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greenish golden colour is confined to the sides and middle of the 
])rosternum and is not always present. The legs are of a deep 
violet colour, the antennae blackish with their base pitchy 
testaceous. 
X. Territory of S. Australia ; collected by Mr. J. P. Tepper 
and others. 
X.B. — The above insect would seem to difier by its less 
rounded form from the hitherto described species of Augomela, 
which it approximates however by the style of its colouring and 
markings and by the form of its claws, as also of its prosternum ; 
its antennae resemble those of Calomela. Possibly some authors 
might consider it the type of a new genus, but I think no great 
violence is required to associate it with Augomela. 
Calomela. 
C. APicALis, sp.nov. 
Lata ; oblonga ; convexa ; nitida ; rufa ; antennis (basi excepta) 
nigro-piceis ; elytris (margine laterali excepta) cyaneo-nigris, 
puncturis ^fiolaceis ; abdomine (segmento apicali excepto) cyaneo 
vel ^■iridi ; elytris subseriatim, prothorace acervatim, punctulatis. 
[Long. 85, lat. I5 lines. 
The general colour of the elytra is black with a scarcely per- 
ceptible blui.sh tone, but the punctures, though fine, are evidently 
of a decided blue. The head is rather strongly (but not coarsely) 
punctured in front, nearly smooth behind. The prothorax is very 
coarsely punctured at the sides and ha-s some connected clusters 
of finer punctures about the base and the middle of the disc. The 
elytra are finely punctulate, the punctures scarcely running in 
rows except near the apex (where they are very faint). 
This species must resemble C. cingulata, Baly, from X.W. 
Australia, Vmt differs inter alia in the elytra not being “ cyanea” 
or in the least striated, and in the colour of the ventral segments 
which are entirely metallic green or blue save the front margin 
of the basal segment and the whole of the apical one which are 
