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Spin. var.) from which it differs (apart from colour and markings) 
chiefly by its shorter and more convex form, the larger and less 
crowded foves of its elytral series, the less abrupt cessation pos- 
teriorly of the same foves, and their continuity to the actual 
base of the elytra. The antenne of these two species are ex- 
tremely similar, also the conspicuousness of the ninth and tenth 
series of fovex and their interstice to the commencement of the 
smooth apical part of the elytra. 
'S. Australia (Yorke Peninsula). 
A. dives, sp. nov. Cyaneus, elytrorum parte dimidia basali 
a 
n 
magna sanguinea ante-apicali notata), sac palpis tibiis 
anticis tibiarum intermediarum apice et tarsis anticis inter- 
mediisque testaceis; pilis albidis elongatis sparsim vestitus ; 
capite fortiter minus crebre punctulato; antennis prothor- 
acem medium haud attingentibus, eg 9°—11° trans- 
versis, 11° ad apicem leviter emarginato; prothorace sat 
fortiter transverso, fere ut caput (sed poaniil — grosse) 
(—€— antice breviter tubulato, ad partis tubulate 
basin tran 
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In this species the apical joint of the maxillary palpi is more 
strongly securiform than in most of its congeners.  Lacordaire 
tabulates Aula as having ea Joint securiform, but in diagnos- 
ing the genus says that it is of the form of an elongate triangle, 
present species is scarcely traceable. This species is remarkable 
for its short antenne, having their apical joint distinctly trans- 
verse. The seriate punetures of the elytra are scarcely smaller 
A, se 
tures of its elytra, from A. cresus by the seriate puctures of 5 
elytra not nearly reaching the b base, from A. episcopalis by the: 
