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slightly salient, with interhumeral and post-scutellar depres- 

 sions; closely punctured, the punctures larger than those on 

 prothorax, reticulate, here and there slightly confluent, and 

 extending right to apex, where they are smaller but never- 

 theless distinct, at base less crowded and smaller, only humeral 

 angles glistening through paucity of punctures; on each 

 elytron are to be seen three more or less distinct carinae. 

 Legs comparatively slender, posterior femora only reaching 

 about half-way to apex of elytra. Length, 9'5-12'5 mm. 



Hah. — South Australia: Mount Lofty Ranges (Black- 

 burn's collection, Rev. A. P. Burgess, A. H. Elston), Sandy 

 Creek (J. G. O. Tepper) ; Victoria: Lake's Entrance, Noble 

 Park (F. E. Wilson), Dividing Range (Blackburn's col- 

 lection); Tasmania (A. Simson). Type, in author's collection; 

 cotype, I. 12816, in South Australian Museum. 



A very elongate species, and does not vary much in colour 

 except that on some specimens the coppery gloss is a little 

 brighter than on others. In general appearance very close 

 to E . aspera, Newm., from which it can be distinguished by 

 the shape of the prothorax, the punctures of which are larger 

 and more individually distinct, the transverse wrinkles coarser 

 and less crowded, and the punctures on the elytra larger, and 

 somewhat less crowded. 



Eleale margaritacea, n. sp. 



Upper-surface dark green, iridescent, palpi and club of 

 antennae black; very scantily clothed with moderately long, 

 semi-erect, black hairs, interspersed with white ones, which 

 are more numerous at the sides of prothorax and on legs than 

 elsewhere, scutellum lightly clothed with white pubescence. 

 Under-surface shining, gula bright blue, sterna and abdomen 

 green, the sterna with metallic, the latter with glistening 

 brassy reflections, clothed with moderately long whitish hairs, 

 middle portion of metasternum and abdomen glabrous. 



Head elongate, with a large shallow depression between 

 the eyes, closely punctured, the punctures round, deep, here 

 and there confluent, and defining a longitudinal carina mid- 

 way between the eyes, extending from the clypeal suture to 

 the vertex. Antennae reaching to beyond the middle of the 

 prothorax, the first joint very large, the second almost 

 globular, three to six longer than wide and subcylindrical, 

 seven and eight slightly flattened and dilated at their apices, 

 nine to eleven compressed, the ninth nearly twice the size of 

 the eighth, the apical not much larger than the tenth, and 

 with a small, rather shallow, oblique emargination on the 

 inside, the apex truncate. Prothorax not much longer than 



