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smaller, but nevertheless distinct. Femora moderately 

 robust, the posterior ones not reaching apex of elytra. 

 Length, 9-12 mm. 



Hab. — South Australia: Karoonda (G. E. H. Wright); 

 Western Australia: Geraldton (J. Clark), Mullewa (Miss J. 

 F. May). Type, in author's collection; cotype, I. 12817, in 

 South Australian Museum. 



On some specimens can be seen three feeble carinae on 

 each elytron, the elytral punctures are very crowded, but 

 nowhere confluent, the humeral angles only glistening through 

 paucity of punctures. Differs from E. aulicodes, Gorham, 

 in having the head and prothorax more elongate, the punc- 

 tures on face more crowded, the club more distinctly three- 

 jointed, and by its colour. In general appearance it some- 

 what resembles E . cribrata, Schenk., from which it differs in 

 being more robust and hairy, by the club of antennae, the 

 apical joint of which is emarginate at its apex, punctures on 

 prothorax smaller and in places confluent, punctures on 

 elytra somewhat smaller and more crowded. 



Eleale parallel a, n. sp. 



Upper-surface green, joints one to six of antennae 

 metal lie -green, seven to ten reddish-brown, the apical black; 

 clothed with nearly upright, moderately long, black hairs, 

 face, scutellum and legs with white hairs. Under-surface 

 shining, greenish-blue, clothed with long, shaggy, white hairs, 

 thicker at the sides than elsewhere. 



Head elongate, with a small shallow depression between 

 the eyes and a somewhat deeper one at the base of each 

 antenna, punctures small, moderately deep and crowded, 

 here and there confluent. Antennae long, almost reaching to 

 base of prothorax, joints three to six cylindrical, seven and 

 eight obconical, nine and ten wider than long and almost semi- 

 circular, apical joint nearly as large as nine and ten combined, 

 with a large, deep, crescent-shaped emargination. Prothorax 

 nearly one and a half times as long as wide, sides straight 

 and parallel nearly to base, then slightly contracted to the 

 base itself, disc lightly flattened, transverse subapical impres- 

 sion obsolete, the su bbasal one almost imperceptible ; punc- 

 tures at apex about the same size as those on head and in 

 places transversely confluent, those on disc and sides larger 

 and deeper, here and there confluent, and defining an inter- 

 rupted, longitudinal, median carina. Scutellum small and 

 round. Elytra at base not much wider, and about thrice as 

 long as prothorax, sides straight and parallel nearly to apex, 

 then rounded off, humeral angles not salient, imterhumeral 

 depression almost obsolete, post-scutellar depression much 



