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short and subequal, eleventh longer and oval. Froth orax 

 rather narrow, slightly convex, subtruncate at base and apex, 

 sides nearly straight, not much narrowed in front, anterior 

 angles a little produced, acute, posterior obtuse, disc finely 

 punctate, without medial line. Elytra elongate-ovate, wider 

 than prothorax, striate-punctate, the striae shallow with small 

 punctures closely placed, the intervals flat and minutely 

 puncta.te. Ahdomcn distinctly striolate. Dimensions — 

 6-7 X 3-3'5 mm. 



Hah. — North Queensland: Coen River, Cape York, and 

 Cooktown. 



Six specimens from Cairns and Cape York (A. Lea), 

 Coen River (Melbourne Museum), and Cooktown are near A. 

 tarsalis, Pasc, and .4. suavis, Blkb., but the species differs 

 from the form.er of these in its metallic and evidently punc- 

 tured pronotum, from the latter in the sculpture of the elytra 

 (inter alia), the strise, though fine and shallow, being evident, 

 while the punctures are much smaller and closer than in 

 A. suavis. Type in the author's collection. 



Amarygmus femoratus, n. sp. 



Elongate, narrowly obovate, convex above and below a 

 beautiful violet-blue nitid, femora bright -yellow, tibiae, an- 

 tennae, and tarsi piceous-brown. 



Head coarsely punctate, eyes widely distant, the length 

 of the first two antennal joints; antennae long, enlarged to- 

 wards apex, third little longer than fourth, third to sixth 

 cylindric, eighth to eleventh oval. Prothorax very long and 

 convex, nearly as long as wide, greatest width in front of 

 middle, truncate in front and behind, sides gradually widen- 

 ing from base to beyond the half-w-ay, then rather rapidly 

 but arcuately converging, all angles obtuse, the anterior much 

 depressed, lateral miargins evident from above ; densely and 

 strongly punctate, without medial line. Scutellum, large, 

 triangular, and punctate. Elytra convex, of same width as 

 prothorax at base, gradually widening to behind the middle; 

 finely striate-punctate, the striae shallow, the punctures 

 small, round, and very close (separated by a distance less 

 than the diameter of one), intervals feebly convex and closely, 

 minutely punctate. Prosternum distinctly, sides of meso- 

 sternum coarsely, metasternum and ahdomen finely punctate. 

 Dimensions — 6 x 2*5 mm. 



Hah. — North Queensland (or Port Darwin?) (F. Dodd). 



Mr. Dodd sent this, with other insects, shortly after his 

 return from Port Darwin, but as no locality was affixed I 

 am unable to state the habitat more precisely. An extra- 

 ordinarily shaped insect, easily distinguished from all 



