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the öuture. au S shaped band placed on tlie Shoulder sending 

 off a short brauch at riiiht angles below the middle and 

 lastly a large ringshaped mark near tlie apex: uuderside aud 

 legs likewise but rather sparingly elotlied with whit^ scales, 

 femora rather loug. armed with a slrong tooth, claws bifid. 

 Hab. Flores (collectiou M. Oberthur and my own.) 

 I have received t%vo speeimens of tliis handsome species 

 froni M. Obevthur. 



S,hyparida limbatipennis ^i*. n. 



Piceous. the head. antennae. thorax and leg'^ iulvous, 

 thorax impunctate. elytra stmugly aud dosely puuctale-striate, 

 the iüterstice.-^ costate, black, the lateral and apical margins 

 narrowly fulvous. 



Var. Elytra fulvous. a spot on the Shoulders and two 

 or three short stripes at the sides. black. 



Length 2^1 o lines. 



Head broad, tinely grauulale, fulvous, clypeus more 

 distinctly puuetured, separated from the face by a shallow 

 transverse groove, transverseh' subquadrate, labrum fulvous, 

 mandibles black, eyes very large, sinuate at the inner mar- 

 gin, antennae very short (^) not extending to the middle of 

 the elytra, fulvous, the second Joint proportionately long, but 

 elightly shorter than the third. following joiuts more elongate, 

 thorax twice as broad as long, of nearly equal width, the 

 sides strougly rounded, fulvous. the surface seulptured like 

 the ver^x of the head, scutellum fulvous, elytra scareely 

 perceptibly depressed below the base, black, very strougly 

 puuctate-striate, the punetures closely approadied, the inter- 

 stices strougly costate at the sides and at the apex, those at 

 the former place joined before the apex and abbreviated, the 

 extreme lateral and apical margins fulvous. uuderside i»iceous, 

 legs fulvous. 



Hab. Australia. Cape York. 



At tirst sight, the variety or the speeimens upou wliich 

 I look as such, seems to represeut aoother species. but I fail 

 to lind any other difl'ereuee than that of coloratiou; of eaeh 

 form I possess four speeimens. those with black elytra mar- 

 giued with fulvous, 1 have takeu for the type, in the variety, 

 of the black colour, notliiug is leü but two or three short 

 streaks at the sides of eaeh elytron and a small spot on the 

 Shoulder, the species may be kuown by the eutirely impunc- 

 tate thorax, costate lateral elytral interstices and system of 

 coloratiou. although the latter i.- probably subject to greater 



Stett. entoinol. Zeit. 1395. 



