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reticulate, those at base smaller and less crowded, those 

 on humeral angles and at apex almost obsolete, so that these 

 parts are more nitid than rest of surface ; with two more or less 

 distinct carinae on each elytron. Femora robust, posterior ones 

 not reaching apex of elytra. Length, 9"5-10*5 mm. 



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

 Elston) ; Victoria: Kiata (F. E. Wilson). Type, in author's 

 collection; cotype, I. 12827, in South Australian Museum. 



A very robust and angular species, which may be easily 

 distinguished by the shape of prothorax and the angular 

 appearance at base of elytra. Somewhat resembles E. lati- 

 pennis, n. sp., from which it differs in the shape and sculpture 

 of the prothorax, elytra proportionately longer and with larger 

 and deeper punctures. 



Eleale globicollis, n. sp. 



Upper-surface bright cupreous, face, sides of prothorax, 

 and base of elytra slightly diluted with green, large patch on 

 middle of each elytron much paler, almost testaceous, labrum 

 and mandibles dark brown, palpi, tibiae and tarsi testaceous, 

 the two latter infuscate in parts, femora violet; scantily 

 clothed with short subdepressed black, interspersed with 

 white hairs, the latter more numerous and longer at sides 

 of prothorax, on elytra and legs; scutellum with thick white 

 pubescence and at apex of elytra a fringe of white hairs. 

 Under-surface violet with brilliant coppery gloss; sides of 

 meso- and metasternum thickly clothed with moderately long, 

 depressed, white hairs, elsewhere much more scantily clothed. 



Head with a small, round, moderately shallow, inter- 

 ocular depression; punctures on top small and deep, confluent 

 on the vertex and defining a small longitudinal carina, those 

 on the face larger and somewhat obliquely confluent. 

 Antennae barely reaching to middle of prothorax, the seventh 

 joint almost cylindrical, the eighth slightly dilated and flat- 

 tened, the club distinctly three- jointed and compressed, the 

 ninth obconical, the tenth wider than long, the apical about 

 as long as wide, truncate at its apex, and almost im- 

 perceptibly emarginated. Prothorax slightly longer than 

 wide, sides dilated near the middle, with trans- 

 verse subapical and subbasal depressions, the latter much 

 deeper than the former, disc very lightly flattened, punctures 

 at apex about same size as those on vertex of head and trans- 

 versely confluent, on the disc and sides the punctures are 

 much larger, deeper, and reticulate; only confluent in places 

 near the middle, and defining an interrupted and more or less 

 distinct longitudinal median carina. Scutellum round. 

 Elytra at base about twice as wide as the prothorax, and a 



