208 MARTIN JACOBY 



Length 1 V^-l V2 line. 



Head with a deep longitudinal ccmtral groove. Eyes very large 

 distinctly notched and closely approached, the intermediate space 

 much narrower than their diameter ( </?). Epistome longer than 

 broad , its surface depressed and deeply punctured. Antennae 

 half the length of the body, the -seven outer joints distinctly 

 incrassate, black, four lower joints obscure fulvous. Thorax 

 transverse, of nearly equal size, not narrowed anteriorly, tlie 

 sides slightly rounded, surface strongly and rather closely co- 

 vered with deep, oblong punctures, which are nearly confluent 

 at the sides, a narrow space in front of the posterior margin 

 nearly impunctate. Scutellum black, trigonate. Elytra very 

 faintly depressed below the base, very deeply punctate-striate 

 at their anterior portion, the punctuation almost invisible at 

 the apex , the latter and a more or less distinct spot at the 

 shoulder fulvous. 



Australia, Somerset (Cape York), January ( L. M. D' Al- 

 bertis ). 



Of this small species which may be recognised by it colou- 

 ration and the elongate punctuation of the thorax, two speci- 

 mens are before me which differ in the following ways. In one 

 of them the space between the eyes is very narrow, the epi- 

 stome being coarsely punctured; in the other the latter, al- 

 though of the same shape is less strongly punctate and the eyes 

 are much wider apart, the punctuation is also less deeply im- 

 pressed at the elytra and the legs are entirely fulvous, but as 

 these specimens were both obtained at the same locality and 

 time, I attribute these differences to sexual causes. 



27. !Rlx3''pai*i<ia, miiiutu,, n. sp. 



Oblong; fulvo-picea; thorax strongly punctured at the sides; 

 elytra fulvous, deeply punctate-striate anteriorly, the apical por- 

 tion impunctate. 



Length 1 line. 



Base of head llnely but distinctly punctured; e])istoine not 



