196 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, VIII., 



received a specimen of the real A. smaragdinus from the Dandenong 

 Ranges in Victoria,* and it differs from that species in its coppery 

 colour, paler antennae, abdomen not subcarinate along middle and 

 very different punctures, especially of the elytra; in A. smarag- 

 dinus these punctures are rather small, comparatively distant, 

 and no larger than those on the scutellum; in the present species 

 they are much larger than those on the scutellum (these being the 

 same size as in A. smaragdinus) and much closer together. The 

 coppery parts are very finely shagreen ed, and the play of colours 

 on them when wet is very beautiful. 



Hyperomma pictipes, n.sp. 

 (Plate xviii., fig.2). 



(J. Shining. Of a rather dark brownish-red; legs flavous, coxa?,, 

 base of femora and middle of tibia? more or less infuscate; palpi 

 and antennae reddish-flavous, the latter infuscate in middle. 

 Upper surface and sides with a few scattered hairs; abdomen 

 sparsely pubescent. 



Head ovate, smooth, with a few rather large clearly defined 

 punctures, almost absent from disc. Eyes almost on top of head. 

 Antenna? scarcely extending to base of prothorax, 1st joint as 

 long as 2nd-3rd combined, 2nd rather more than half the length 

 of 3rd. Terminal joint of palpi small but distinct. Prothorax 

 regularly convex, distinctly longer than wide, just perceptibly 

 wider than head, widest near apex, all the angles rounded, with 

 a row of about ten small setiferous punctures on each side of 

 middle, the rows diverging in front; towards each side an irregular 

 row of about six similar punctures. Elytra narrower and much 

 shorter than prothorax, shoulders strongly rounded, apex incurved 

 to middle; with rather large, but not sharply defined, punctures, 

 in irregular rows, and becoming smaller posteriorly. Abdomen at 

 base as wide as elytra, gradually dilating to beyond the middle, 

 and then strongly narrowed; with rather sparse and indistinct 

 punctures; terminated by two long styles; 5th and 6th segments 



* The type was from the Victorian Mountains. 



