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FURTHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
bright red. I have five specimens before me all quite identical. 
Even if it be a local var. of C. cingiUaia it seems deserving of a 
name. 
N. Territory of S. Australia j taken by Mr. J. P. Tepper. 
C. PUNCTiPES, Germ. 
This species is generally regarded as a form of Curtisi, Kirby, 
but I am unable to consider it so. I have before me a long 
series from widely separated parts of S. Australia which show 
verv little variety inter se but invariably differ from typical 
Curtisi in having the prothorax wider and shorter with its disc 
much more coarsely punctured. Their differences inter se are 
almost confined to variations in the markings of the prothorax. 
I believe C. punctipes to be a good species. 
C. DISTINGUENDA, sp.nOV. 
Oblonga ; convexa ; sat nitida ; rufa ; antennis (basi excepta) 
tarsLsque piceis ; elytrorum vitta discoidali (antice abrupte dilatata), 
femoribus externe et tibiis cyaneis ; capite antice crasse postice 
subtditer sparsim, prothorace ad latera crasse disco subtilius 
acervatim, punctulatis ; elytris subtilius punctulatis, puncturis 
latera et suturam versus seriatim dispositis, illic crassioribus. 
[Long. 2|, lat. 1| lines. 
Allied to C. Curtisi, Kirby. Compared with it the prothorax 
is not quite so short and is decidedly more thinly punctulate on 
the disc ; the elytra are much more finely punctulate and bear 
a differently shaped vitta, which is much narrower, and is abruptly 
dilated in front on its inner side ; and the imderside, scutellum 
and thorax are entirely rufous, while the tibiae are wholly cyaneous. 
N. Territory of S. Australia ; taken by Mr. J. P. Tepper. 
C. TARSALIS, Sp.nOV. 
Lata ; oblonga ; convexa ; sat nitida ; te.stacea vel nifo-testacea ; 
antennis (basi excepta) tibiis apice et tarsis nigris ; elytris regu- 
lariter seriatim, prothorace crasse (praesertim lateribus), capite 
crasse confuse, punctulatis. [Long. 3, lat. 1| lines (vix). 
