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one distinct, the disc slightly flattened; punctures at apex 

 slightly smaller than those on head and somewhat transversely 

 confluent, on the disc and sides much larger and deeper, and 

 only here and there confluent. Scutellum comparatively 

 large and round. Elytra at base nearly twice as wide as the 

 pro thorax, and about twice its length, sides almost parallel to 

 beyond the middle, then narrowed towards apex, interhumeral 

 and post-scutellar depressions comparatively shallow ; with 

 moderately small punctures, crowded and reticulate, only here 

 and there confluent, those near the base and apex smaller 

 and less crowded, and on the humeral angles they are almost 

 absent, so that this part is more nitid than the rest of the 

 surface. Legs comparatively long, posterior femora nearly 

 reaching apex of elytra. Length, 7-9 mm. 



Hob. — South Australia: Quorn (Blackburn's collection), 

 Murray River (R. F. Kemp and A. H. Elston). Type, in 

 author's collection; cotype, I. 12819, in South Australian 

 Museum. 



On some specimens the colour is violet with a stronger 

 mixture of blue in it, and on one the metallic green gloss 

 predominates over the violet. On the middle of each elytron 

 are two more or less distinct longitudinal carinae, starting 

 near the base and becoming obsolete behind the middle, the 

 apices are decorated with a fringe of moderately long white 

 hairs. The shape of the prothorax somewhat resembles that 

 of E. cribrata, Schenklg., otherwise it cannot readily be 

 associated with any other previously described species. 



Eleale perplexa, n. sp. 



Upper-surface of head and prothorax green, palpi and 

 antennae testaceous, with the club of the latter and the 

 apices of the former lightly infuscate, elytra cupreous with 

 a brassy reflection, anterior legs green with brassy reflection, 

 intermediate and posterior ones violet; clothed with short, 

 subdepressed, black hairs, interspersed with shorter and more 

 depressed white ones ; scutellum covered with white pubescence. 

 Under-surface green with brassy reflection, and densely 

 clothed with long, shaggy, white hairs. 



Head elongate, with a moderately large, shallow, inter- 

 ocular depression, and two smaller, deeper, and more elongate 

 ones at base of antennae ; the punctures small, deep, and dense, 

 confluent in parts, and defining a short median longitudinal 

 carina on the vertex. Antennae reaching to middle of pro- 

 thorax, joints seven and eight but slightly dilated and flat- 

 tened, club distinctly three- jointed, the inside of the last 

 joint barely emarginate, the outside apical angle rounded, 

 the inside one acute. Prothorax longer than wide, base about 



