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punctate; fuefasfenuuii channelled and punctate, depressed 

 near base; ahdowen rugosely punctate. Dimensions — 

 15-18 X 7-5-9 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Townsville (F. Dodd). 



Seven specimens examined, sent by Mr. H. Griffith, of 

 Adelaide ; also in Brussels Museum. The combination of large 

 size, uniform coloration of elytra, flavo-setose tarsi and 

 metallic pronotum and underside makes this species easy to 

 determine. It is, perhaps, nearest C. leai, Blkb., and C. relu- 

 f/nus, W. S. Macl. : but C. Icai (of which I have seen co- 

 types) is differently coloured with much coarser sculpture of 

 elytra, while velutiuus (of which I know the type) has the 

 \inder-side black eyes more approximate inter aJia. In general 

 form it is near C. Jongulus, Blkb., C. leai, Blkb., and C. 

 hrevipe^, Blkb. The striae are not deep, but evident when 

 viewed sideways, and give an elongate appearance to the 

 punctures, which are placed and are of the same average size 

 a.s in C. iridicolor, Bless,, though finer in the middle series. 

 The metallic colour of the punctures is not constant, though 

 strongly marked in four of the specimens. 



Note. 



C . cu'preus, Fab. The above species is very near cupreus, 

 Fab., and is the insect sent by Mr. Blair as the nearest he 

 could find to the Fabrician type. Mr. Blair writes on the sub- 

 ject of cupreus: — "Type remains unique. Compared with 

 enclosed it is somewhat smaller (15 x 7h mm.), and I should 

 say a little less elongate, though as the elytra are rather widely 

 open it is difficult to judge. The pronotum is less convex, 

 punctured about as strongly, though more sparingly, the 

 punctures becoming smaller and sparser anteriorly : in colour 

 it has a tarnished appearance, broadly blue round the margins 

 shading into purple, and greenish on the disc, this is probably 

 largely due to age, it is semi-opaque as in specimen : the elytra 

 are a little more nitid, shining coppery and brassy, and blackish 

 towards the apex ; they are seriately punctate, with inter- 

 stices quite flat with fewer and finer sharper punctures, the 

 punctures of the series are about as large, rather sharper a-nd 

 a little wider apart, with the series not at all impressed, the 

 two outer series disappear a little below the level of the pin. 

 The under-side is black, about as nitid, but wifJi no metaUic 

 colour: tarsal vestiture fulvous, the distance between the 

 eyes a little greater; ocular sulci are present below the eyes, 

 but not well developed, and they do not extend between the 

 -eyes.'' "While some specimens of the species I took for 

 cupreus, Fa.b., have the under-side obscure, or black, there is 

 >still a strong presumption that either C. cupreus is a rare 



