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This is a very pretty little insect which varies slightly in 

 colour, on some specimens the club of the antennae is darker 

 than on the type, the prothorax is sometimes coppery, and 

 the elytra almost blue, the humeral callosities are sometimes 

 almost flat and the interhumeral depressions barely per- 

 ceptible. Comes very close to E. brevicornis, Chev., from 

 which it may be readily distinguished by its colour, somewhat 

 finer punctuation, particularly on the prothorax, the sides of 

 which are straighter, and also on the numeral angles and at 

 apex of elytra, so that these parts are more nitid than the 

 rest of surface. Differs from the description of E. hrevis, 

 Gorh., by its colour and size, head closely punctured, and 

 sides of the prothorax straight. 



Eleale aulicodes, Gorham. 

 Specimens from Lake Callabonna differ from the typical 

 form in being smaller, and in colour ranging from a beautiful 

 pale blue to a deeper blue reflecting purple. 



Eleale reticulata, n. sp. 



Upper-surface deep violet, in parts reflecting blue and 

 green, club of antennae dull black, femora blue; clothed with 

 moderately long black hairs, becoming shorter and more 

 depressed towards apex of elytra, scutellum with thick white 

 pubescence, sides of prothorax and base of femora with shaggy 

 white hairs. TJnder-surface shining blue, in parts reflecting 

 green, densely clothed with long, shaggy, white hairs, becoming- 

 shorter and more depressed on the abdomen. 



Head elongate, with a large, shallow, interocular depres- 

 sion, moderately large punctures, becoming smaller, more 

 crowded, and confluent between the eyes and on the forepart, 

 and defining a more or less distinct longitudinal carina mid- 

 way between the eyes. Antennae reaching to about the 

 middle of prothorax, joints seven and eight only very slightly 

 obconical and about as wide as the sixth, club wide and three- 

 jointed, joints compressed, the apical truncate and emarginate 

 at its apex. Prothorax slightly longer than wide, sides in- 

 flated near the middle, with a transverse subapical and sub- 

 basal impression, the former being almost obsolete, disc flat, 

 punctures near apex small but distinct, elsewhere much larger 

 and in places confluent, especially on disc, where they define 

 a more or less distinct, thin, longitudinal median carina. 

 Scutellum moderately large and round. Elytra elongate, at 

 base wider than prothorax, sides subparallel, with inter- 

 humeral and post-scutellar depressions; punctures moderately 

 large, crowded, and reticulate, those at the base and apex 



