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arcuatim (et mox ante basin recte) sulcato, pone sulcum 

 anticuin longitudinaliter brevissime canaliculato, lateribus 

 ante sulcum anticum et inter sulcos separatim rotundatis ; 

 elytris 10-seriatim foveolatis (interstitio inter series 9 am et 

 10 am ultra elytra media haud cariniformi), foveolis per elytra 

 tota fere continuis sed apicem versus haud quadratis minus 

 crassis, serierum interstitiis a foveolarum interstitiis trans- 

 versis turbatis. Long., 3^ 1., lat., 1J- 1. 



This species is closely allied to A. corallipes, Chevr., but is 

 certainly a distinct species. In a considerable number of speci- 

 mens before me the hind tibiae and tarsi are invariably black, the 

 intermediate tarsi invariably black, and the intermediate tibiae 

 invariably more or less black. The few specimens I have seen of 

 corallipes (from Tasmania) all have entirely red legs. There is 

 also considerable and constant difference in the sculpture of the 

 elytra which in cribratus begins close to the base and attains the 

 apex, only becoming finer and less regular near the apex (so that 

 this species has about the strongest apical puncturation of any in 

 the genus) ; while in corallipes the sculpture begins considerably 

 behind the base and changes suddenly at the commencement of 

 the apical third of the elytra into a feeble non-rugulose punctura- 

 tion. 



S. Australia and N.S. Wales. 



A. modestus, sp. nov. Angustus, elongatus, modice convexus ; 

 supra obscure aeneus, antennis palpisque testaceis, subtus 

 obscure cyaneus ; pilis elongatis (his in corpore supra 

 obscuris, in corpore subtus albidis) vestitus ; capite antice 

 crebre ruguloso, postice minus crebre punctulato, inter oculos 

 fovea impresso ; antennis prothoracem medium vix attin- 

 gentibus, articulis 9° 10° que trans versis 11° obovato ad 

 apicem acuto ; prothorace vix trans verso, inaequaliter (in 

 medio fortius sat crebre, apicem basinque versus subtilius 

 sparsius) punctulato, in medio transversim rugato, sat longe 

 pone apicem arcuatim (et mox ante basin recte) sulcato, pone 

 sulcum anticum longitudinaliter minus breviter canaliculato, 

 lateribus ante sulcum anticum et inter sulcos separatim 

 rotundatis ; elytris 10-seriatim foveolatis (interstitio inter 

 series 9 am 10 am que haud cariniformi), foveolis basin versus 

 obsoletis apicem versus gradatim minus quadratis minus 

 seriatis magis confertis, serierum interstitiis a foveolarum 

 interstitiis trans versis turbatis. Long., 3^ 1.; lat., 1 1. 

 Var. C?immat.) pedibus sordide testaceis. 



This species is closely allied to A. eremita, Blackb. It differs 

 from that insect in colour which is (invariably in all the exam- 

 ples I have seen) dull bronzy above and blackish (tending to 

 cyaneous) beneath, the antennae and palpi testaceous, the front 



