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smaller than those on disc, are nevertheless distinct and deep. 

 It differs from E. margaritacea, n. sp., by having a more 

 shining appearance, brighter colour, surface of face more 

 uneven, joints comprising the club of antennae not compressed, 

 the apical joint bigger and more largely and deeply excavated, 

 transverse wrinkles on prothorax more numerous and finer, 

 and the punctures on the elytra more confluent. 



Eleale amoena, n. sp. 



Upper-surface shining, head and elytra green, the latter 

 tinged near suture with violet, prothorax brassy, base slightly 

 tinged with violet, legs deep metallic-green with coppery 

 gloss, antennae testaceous, club more or less infuscate; clothed 

 with moderately long, almost upright dark hairs, shorter and 

 more depressed on elytra, with pale hairs at sides, on scut- 

 tellum and legs. Under-surface shining green with brassy 

 reflections, and lightly clothed with moderately long white 

 hairs. 



Head elongate, with a small, round, interocular depres- 

 sion, closely and rugosely punctured, the punctures much 

 fainter on part of face near clypeal suture, this part, which 

 glistens, extends upwards in the form of a triangle, the apex 

 being just below the depression. Antennae short, barely 

 reaching to middle of prothorax; club distinctly three- 

 jointed, the apical joint not emarginate. Prothorax slightly 

 longer than wide, disc slightly flattened, sides parallel, but 

 contracted suddenly near the base, with a transverse sub- 

 basal impression, which has a small round median fovea in 

 front of, and touching it; punctures at apex slightly smaller 

 than those on head, and more or less individually distinct, 

 those on the disc and sides much larger and deeper, trans- 

 versely rugose, and arranged so as to define a narrow longi- 

 tudinal median carina. Sea tell um small and round. Elytra 

 at base wider than prothorax, sides widest just beyond the 

 middle, humeral callosities small and barely salient, inter- 

 humeral depression small and shallow, the post-scutellar 

 depression somewhat larger and deeper; with moderately 

 large, seriate and reticulate punctures, more or less quadratic 

 and slightly confluent at suture near the middle. 31 eta- 

 sternum and abdomen with a long, narrow, longitudinal 

 furrow, extending from behind the intermediate coxae to 

 almost the apex of the abdomen, and interrupted by the 

 posterior coxae. Femora robust, posterior ones not reaching 

 apex of elytra. Length, 5-6 mm. 



Hah. — South Australia : Barossa (R. J. Burton), Murray 

 River (A. H. Elston). Type, in author's collection; cotype, 

 I. 12813. in South Australian Museum. 



