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elytra scantily clothed with moderately long, upright, black 

 hairs; face, scutellum, and legs lightly clothed with white 

 hairs. Under-surface shining green with brassy reflections, 

 and thickly clothed with long, shaggy, white hairs. 



Head elongate, surface of face uneven, having a moder- 

 ately large and irregularly shaped shallow depression between 

 the eyes, and a smaller and deeper one at the base of each 

 antenna, with comparatively small and rugose punctures, 

 those on the vertex somewhat finer and less crowded; mid- 

 way between the eyes a more or less distinct longitudinal 

 carina. Antennae long, almost reaching back to base of 

 prothorax; joints three to six cylindrical, seven to> nine 

 obconical and gradually increasing in width, the apical joint 

 slightly wider than the tenth, and about one a half times as 

 large, on the inside is a large, deep, crescent-shaped emargina- 

 tion. Prothorax only very slightly longer than wide, sides 

 gradually widening to beyond the middle, where they reach 

 their maximum width, then suddenly contract towards the 

 base, with a shallow subapical transverse impression and a 

 deeper subbasal one; on the middle of disc are two*, shallow 

 foveae, one just behind the subapical and the other in front 

 of the subbasal impressions, both foveae touching the im- 

 pressions, also two shallow foveae, one on each side where 

 the sides of prothorax attain their maximum width; trans- 

 versely wrinkled, the punctures, which are about the same 

 size as those on head, are only with difficulty to be here and 

 there separately perceived. Scutellum comparatively small 

 and round. Elytra at base about one and a half times as 

 wide as the widest part of prothorax and barely three times 

 its length, sides straight and parallel to beyond the middle 

 then gradually rounded off towards apex, humeral angles 

 salient, ihterhumeral and post-scutellar depressions moder- 

 ately deep; closely punctured, the punctures large, deep, 

 quadratic, and reticulate, in places transversely confluent, 

 those near the base less crowded and more individually dis- 

 tinct, only the outside of humeral angles glistening from the 

 paucity of punctures ; on each elytron are two* rather indis- 

 tinct longitudinal carinae. Femora robust, posterior ones 

 not reaching apex of elytra. Length, 6-7 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Stradbroke Island (H. Hacker, H. 

 Pottinger). Type, in author's collection; cotypes, in South 

 Australian Museum (I. 12824) and Queensland Museum. 



A robust species and apparently not variable, except that 

 some specimens have a little stronger brassy reflection than 

 others. Although the whole upper-surface is shining, it 

 nowhere glistens through the paucity of punctures, except at 

 the humeral angles ; the punctures at apex of elytra, although 



