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Hab. — South Australia: Mount Lofty Ranges (Rev. A. 

 P. Burgess), Quorn (Blackburn's collection). Type, I. 12826, 

 in South Australian Museum. 



A very hairy species, and at once distinguished from all 

 previously described ones by the singular formation of the 

 apical joint of the antennae, the excavations on each side of 

 it are deep, and extend for about half the length of the 

 joint, so that the apical spine is about as long as the un- 

 excavated portion; on some specimens the club is a little 

 darker than on the type, but this may b© due to age or post- 

 mortem change. There is an entire absence of carinae on the 

 elytra, which are closely and uniformly punctured, the inter- 

 liumeral and post-scutellar depressions are distinct and about 

 the same size. 



Eleale angularis, n. sp. 



Upper-surface shining, dark blue with metallic reflec- 

 tions, legs paler, antennae shining red with club dull black; 

 scantily clothed with moderately long, semi-erect, black hairs; 

 scutellum, sides near base of prothorax, and apex of elytra 

 with white hairs. Under-surface dark blue with here and 

 there metallic reflections; scantily clothed with comparatively 

 short, depressed, white hairs, clothing much thicker at sides 

 of pro- and mesosternum than elsewhere. 



Head moderately elongate, with a large round depression 

 between the eyes, and with small, round, rather deep, and dense 

 punctures, here and there confluent. Antennae reaching to 

 about middle of prothorax, joints three to five longer than 

 wide, the third being the longest, the sixth barely longer than 

 wide, the seventh and eighth obconical, the latter wider, the 

 club three- jointed and compressed, the ninth and tenth 

 obconical, the ninth about twice the size of the eighth, the 

 apical joint about half as big again as the tenth, truncate at 

 its apex, the inside almost imperceptibly emarginated, the 

 inside apical angle acute, the outside one rounded. Prothorax 

 not much longer than wide, sides almost straight and slightly 

 diverging outwards to beyond the middle, then suddenly 

 contracting towards the base, making an obtuse angle on each 

 side; with a shallow subapical transverse impression and a 

 deeper subbasal one, disc flattened and slightly uneven; 

 punctures large, deep and crowded, here and there confluent, 

 those near the apex and base smaller and less crowded ; with 

 a more or less distinct longitudinal median carina. Scutellum 

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

 and nearly three times as long as the prothorax, sides almost 

 straight and gently rounded off towards apex, humeral angles 

 prominent, with interhumeral and post-scutellar depressions 

 conspicuous; punctures somewhat crowded, large, deep, and 



