64 MARTIN JACOBY 
Length 1 line. 
Head impunctate, the frontal tubercles narrow, transverse 
and limited behind by a deep transverse groove; carina distinct 
and rather broad; labrum and palpi piceous; antennae nearly 
as long as the body, the second and third joints very short 
and equal, the intermediate joints generally darker, the others 
more or less distinctly fulvous; thorax subquadrate, the sides — 
slightly narrowed and straight at the base, the posterior margin 
very little rounded, surface impressed at each side with a shallow 
tovea, impunctate ; elytra very finely wrinkled and punctured, 
dark metallic blue, like the head and thorax ; legs of the same 
colour or piceous, the knees often obscure fulvous; posterior 
tibiae armed with a spine, their first tarsal joint longer than 
the three following joints together; claws appendiculate; an- 
terior coxal cavities incomplete; elytral epipleurae indistinct 
below the middle. 
Hab. Australia, Somerset (L. M. D’Albertis). 
The species, of which many specimens were obtained varies 
in the colour of the legs and that of the antennae which are 
sometimes. almost entirely fulvous, but generally piceous, stained 
with fulvous as described above. 
39. Luperus nigripennis, n. sp. 
Black; head, thorax and legs fulvous; elytra black, extremely 
finely punctured and covered with thin whitish pubescence. 
Length 1-1}/, line. 
Head impunctate; the frontal tubercles distinct; the carina 
acutely raised; eyes large; antennae closely approached, nearly 
as long as the body, black, the two basal joints fulvous; the 
second joint very short, the third and the following joints 
elongate and nearly equal, covered with rather long pubescence; 
thorax twice as broad as long, flavous or fulvous, the sides 
nearly straight, the surface transversely depressed, impunctate; 
scutellum black; elytra narrow and parallel, scarcely visibly 
punctured, the surface covered with single whitish pubescence 
