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must be retained. R. subulatus is evidently similar to subasper, 

 Schfs. In the collection of Schauf uss I found a specimen labelled 

 " punctatus, King; type, Parramatta"; this insect is a 9 and the 

 types of subasper, Schfs., from Tasmania and New South Wales, 

 are all £'s. 



It is very likely that King had seen both £ and Q without 

 noticing it; he says "the head is free from other markings except 

 (in some specimens) a slight depression hardly amounting to a 

 fovea." Those specimens with the depression are g. It agrees 

 with subasper, and the two species are certainly identical. 



The head and prothorax are very coarsely and densely punctured; 

 on the elytra the punctuation is equally strong, but much more 

 scattered; the maxillary palpi are moderately long, the basal club 

 of the 4th joint is strong, ovate, as long as the apical subulate 

 part. 



<J. Head nearly flattened, a little attenuate in the anterior part; 

 in front is a small transverse groove, abbreviated on each side; 

 exactly behind it is a small oblong depression bounded in front 

 by a transverse tubercle; the 3rd joint of the antennae longer than 

 the others, 4-6 a little longer than broad, 7 square, 8 a little 

 transverse, 9 trapezoidal, as long as broad, 10 transverse. 



<J, Head nearly flat in front with two very shallow fovea? 

 hardly visible, the front hardly divided, the antennal tubercles 

 hardly visible; the joints of the antennae a little shorter, the 6th 

 square, the 7th nearly transverse. 



Parramatta, New South Wales; Tasmania. 



Rytus gemmifer, Schaufuss. 



Tijds. v. Ent. xxix. 1886, p. 286. 



This is a very distinct species; the head, prothorax and elytra 

 have a very strong and coarse punctuation, which is not so dense 

 as is the case on the head and prothorax of subulatus ; the 

 maxillary palpi are somewhat stronger, the third joint being 

 longer and more slender than usual, the basal club of the fourth 

 joint nearly fusiform and a little shorter than the apical subu- 

 late part. 



