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synonym of Stethaspis (now Chlorochiton) suturalis of the 

 Melolonthides, but Lansberge, followed by Arrow and Ohaus, 

 referred it to the Rut-elides. There are specimens of it in the 

 Museum from the Richmond River (New South Wales) and 

 Caloundra (Queensland) ; in general appearance it is like a 

 short thick-bodied female of Stethaspis eucalypti ( Xylonychus), 

 but it differs in many details of sculpture, and particularly in 

 the metasternum and claws. 



Anoplognathus smaragdinus, Ohaus. 



Calloodes prasinus, Macl. 



PI. xxvii., figs. 69 and 70. 



As the front tibiae of Calloodes prasinus, Macl., are not 



unidentate, Ohaus referred the species to Anoplognathus, 



and there being already a prasinus in that genus he altered the 



name to smaragdinus A 11 ' 



Anoplognathus multiseriatus, n. sp. 

 PI. xxv., fig. 36; pi. xxvii., fig. 67. 



Of a rather dark olive-green and highly polished ; legs 

 reddish with a coppery gloss, tarsi darker, antennae, palpi, 

 and tip of mesosternal projection reddish". Upper-surface 

 glabrous, pygidium uniformly clothed with depressed white 

 hairs or setae, becoming longer and denser on sterna, and 

 sparser along middle of abdomen. 



Head rather wide and lightly convex ; with small and 

 sparse but sharply-defined punctures near base, becoming 

 larger in front. Clypeus about thrice as wide as long, front 

 margin moderately, the sides lightly upturned ; with rather 

 crowded punctures. Prothorax about twice as wide as long, 

 front angles subacute, hind ones obtuse, base trisinuate, the 

 median sinus narrower than scutellum ; punctures rather small 

 and not very dense, becoming coarse and crowded on sides, 

 with a narrow and scarcely depressed but impunctate median 

 line. Elytra slightly wider than prothorax, apex truncate; 

 with crowded rows of large punctures, becoming more regular 

 towards sides. Pygidium with crowded punctures transversely 

 arranged. Intercoxal process of metasternum long and acute. 

 Front tibiae tridentate, apical tooth long and acute, second 

 triangular and rather large, the other obtuse, claws uneven, 

 the larger front one conspicuously bifid at apex. Length, 

 21 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Bribie Island (H. Hacker). Type 

 (unique), in Queensland Museum. 



A rather small, strongly punctured species, not very close 

 to any other known to me ; of the other green species it may be 



(i7)Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1904, p. 90. 



