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side, the sides themselves and the apex somewhat raised and 

 thickened, apex feebly incurved to middle; punctures sparser 

 than between eyes. Club as long as clypeus is wide. Pro- 

 thorax not much wider than long, basal half almost parallel- 

 sided, thence oblique to apex; medio-basal sinus fairly deep, 

 about two-thirds the width of each of the others; with small 

 scattered punctures, becoming larger on sides. Scutellum 

 with a few punctures about base. Elytra considerably wider 

 than prothorax, posthumeral incurvature strong, sutural stria, 

 deep; each elytron with four irregular rows of punctures and 

 some irregular ones on sides, the second and third rows within 

 a shallow depression. Pygidium very obtusely pointed, 

 rather lightly concentrically strigose. Abdomen feebly 

 depressed along middle. Front tibice tridentate; middle ones 

 stout, apex bidentate and unispinose; hind ones stout, some- 

 what curved, apex produced on one side, but neither dentate 

 nor spinose, claws of middle tarsi of unequal shapes. Length, 

 24 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Richmond River. Type in 

 National Museum from F. H. duBoulay. 



Allied to tibialis and besti, and with middle tarsi much 

 as in those species, but readily distinguished by the apex of 

 the hind tibiae. In the male of besti, as also of frontalis, the 

 hind tibia is scarcely continued beyond the insertion of the 

 tarsus, and is armed with two strong spurs; in tibialis there 

 are no spurs, but the apex is much more acutely produced, 

 near the base also the tibia is much stouter and is strongly 

 armed. In the present species there are no spurs at the in- 

 sertion of the tarsus, but the apex is continued as a flange 

 beyond the same ; from some directions it appears as if the 

 tibia had been split down the middle to the tarsus, and then 

 one-half snapped off. With the tarsus continuing the line 

 of the tibia, however, this appearance would be partially 

 concealed. The mesosternal process is not quite as obtuse at 

 the apex as in besti or tibialis, but much less sharp than in 

 Eupcecila australasicE . On the type there is a fairly wide 

 green space across the base of the clypeus; the greater por- 

 tion of the elytra is green, with the suture and sides, a 

 dilated portion of the sutural marking close to the scutellum, 

 a postmedian quadrangular space attached to the suture, an 

 irregular preapical fascia, and the shoulders black; the 

 pygidium is green with a spot on each side, the apex and a 

 median line black, the lateral edges of the hind coxae and 

 part of the sides of the mesosternum are green ; as is also a 

 line across the penultimate segment of abdomen. The pro- 

 thorax is entirely black, except for a small, vague, transverse,, 

 reddish spot, in each hind angle. 



