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Wales) ; of these the male agrees perfectly with a male bearing 

 Mr. Arrow's identification label as viridiaeneus, and with the 

 position assigned to it in the table by Oh,aus ; the basal joint 

 of its front tarsi is but slightly longer than the second joint 

 (from above it appears to be no longer). The female differs in 

 being more robust, its clypeus red, with its sides almost evenly 

 decreasing in width to apex, which is upturned with the 

 corners rounded off; the front tarsi are thinner, with the basal 

 joint more than twice the length of the second, and the larger 

 claw- joint cleft. By Ohaus's table it would be referred to 

 lucidus, of which the female is unknown to me, but the male is 

 very distinct from the male of viridiaeneus. 



SCHIZOGNATHUS BURMEISTERI, OliaUS. 



PI. xxvii., fig. 73. 

 This species occurs in Victoria (Gippsland) as well as in 

 New South Wales (Galston) and Queensland. 



MlMADORETUS NIVEOSQUAMOSUS, 11. Sp. 



PI. xxvii., fig. 76. 



9 Dark piceous-brown, with a metallic-green gloss; 



elytra, antennae, palpi, and most of legs more or less 



castaneous. Moderately clothed with thin, white, depressed 



scales or setae, becoming dense on pygidium and under-surface. 



Head with large, sharply-defined punctures, rather dense 

 near clypeal suture, smaller and sparser near base. Clypeus 

 transversely oblong, about thrice as wide as long, margins 

 moderately upcurved ; with crowded, asperate punctures. 

 Antennae ten-, club three-jointed. Prothorax scarcely twice 

 as wide as long, sides rather strongly rounded, front angles 

 produced and subacute, hind ones subrectangular ; middle with 

 rather sparse and small but sharply-defined punctures, 

 becoming larger and denser on sides. Scutellurn with a few 

 submarginal punctures. Elytra gently dilated to beyond the 

 middle, each widely separately rounded at apex ; each with 

 thirteen well-defined striae, containing distinct punctures, 

 interstices smooth and almost impunctate. Pygidium with 

 dense but normally concealed punctures. Prosternum with a 

 conspicuous elevation at base, produced to between middle of 

 front coxae. Mesosternum with a triangular process, not 

 passing middle of coxae. Front tibiae strongly bidentate; 

 basal joint of front tarsi as long as the three following 

 combined, larger claw- joint cleft at apex. Length, 12-14 mm. 



JIab. — Queensland: South Johnstone River (H. \y. 

 Brown). Type, I. 10769. 



The greenish gloss is very conspicuous on the scutellurn 

 and margins of prothorax. The scales on the elytra are almost 





