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deeper; punctures moderately large and deep, crowded, 

 reticulate, transversely confluent near suture; at "base, on 

 humeral angles, and at apex the punctures are smaller, but 

 not sufficiently fine to cause these parts to glisten. When 

 viewed in a slanting direction from the front, two longitudinal 

 carinae are to be plainly seen on the basal half of each elytron. 

 Legs slender, posterior femora not reaching apex of elytra. 

 Length, 8-10 mm. 



Hob. — Queensland: Stradbroke Island (H. Hacker), 

 Brisbane (F. E. Wilson). Type, in author's collection; 

 cotypes, in South Australian Museum (I. 12823), and in 

 Queensland Museum. 



A very elongate and distinct species, apparently not a 

 variable one. In general appearance somewhat resembles 

 E. aspera, Newm., from which it can be readily distinguished 

 by the apical joint of the antennae being larger and more 

 deeply excavated, and the different sculpture of the prothorax. 



Eleale spinicornis, n. sp, 



Upper-surface' deep blue, almost black, with here and 

 there a metallic reflection, head paler, club of antennae 

 testaceous; scantily clothed with rather long, semi-erect, black 

 hairs, and thickly clothed with short, depressed, hoary hairs. 

 TJnder-surface green with brassy reflections, and thickly 

 clothed with moderately long, shaggy, white hairs. 



Head with a large shallow depression between the eyes, 

 and moderatly large punctures, not crowded, here and there 

 confluent. Antennae long, almost reaching to base of pro- 

 thorax, joints three to eight longer than wide and nearly 

 cylindrical, club distinctly three-jointed, compressed, with 

 the first two obconical, the apical rounded at its base, and 

 with a large, deep, semi-oblique emargination on each side 

 of it, that on the inner side being somewhat deeper, the apex 

 produced into a rather long, pointed spine. Prothorax about 

 as long as wide, sides evenly rounded, widest part being near 

 the middle, subapical transverse impression entirely absent, 

 the subbasal one very indistinct, disc very lighjtly flattened; 

 punctures moderately large, but not deep, those near apex 

 smaller, here and there confluent, with a more or less distinct 

 longitudinal median carina. Scutellum small and round. 

 Elytra at base little wider than widest part of prothorax and 

 about thrice its length, sides almost straight and gently 

 rounded towards apex; punctures smaller than those on disc 

 of prothorax, round, shallow, and crowded, near base smaller 

 and less crowded, only humeral angles glistening through 

 paucity of punctures. Posterior femora not reaching apex 

 of elytra. Length, 4*5-7 mm. 



