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than wide, sides oblique between middle and apex, gently 

 incurved between middle and base, median line feeble, a dis- 

 tinct but not very large fovea on each side of middle towards 

 base ; with fairly dense and sharply denned punctures of 

 moderate size. Elytra rather narrow, with very dense, 

 sharply denned punctures of rather small size, and seldom 

 confluent. Length, 5J-8 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cairns (J. A. Anderson). Type, 

 I. 3210. 



In Blackburn's table would be placed in "A" and from 

 all the species of that section the combination of red head, 

 with black, non-metallic etytra, will readily distinguish it. 

 The colours as described are those of three specimens, a fourth 

 has the abdomen and metasternum entirely pale. This speci- 

 men in some respects agrees with the description of semirufa, 

 but differs in having the head red, prothoracic foveae nearer 

 base than apex, and second joint of antennae quite as long as 

 third ; the elytral punctures, although distinct, are certainly 

 not "grossis" ; semirufa was also from the other side of the 

 continent. 



var. nigroterminalis, n. var. 



Two specimens (also from Cairns) agree absolutely in all 

 details of sculpture, but differ in having the elytra pale except 

 for about one-third of the apex, the black portion is not 

 straight across, but is narrowest at the suture, then obliquely 

 dilated forward, and then is somewhat rounded to each side. 

 One has the metasternum deeply infuscated; the other has it 

 entirely pale, but each shoulder is feebly infuscated. 



These specimens, in Blackburn's table, would be asso- 

 ciated with nigroapicata, but they differ from the description 

 in having the prothorax non-foveate on sides, and elytra 

 without traces of elevated lines on the disc. They also differ 

 from the description of Carpentaria in the third joint of 

 antennae being no longer than the second, femora partly 

 black, and prothorax and elytra with very distinct punctures. 

 In colours they agree well with the description of those of 

 apicalis, but the prothorax is of very different shape, and the 

 elytra are very densely instead of sparingly punctured. 



ZONITIS PKTICORNIS, n. Sp. 



3 . Reddish-flavous, elytra blackish, the suture and 

 sides (except at apex) flavous, antennae (except base of first 

 joint, apex of third, and base and apex of each of the follow- 

 ing ones), parts of palpi, tibiae, tarsi, and tips of femora more 

 or less blackish. Elytra rather densely clothed with very 

 short pubescence, rest of upper-surface sparsely clothed. 



