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Var.? Elytris in parte antica dimidia (basi summa excepta) 
fulvis. Long., 3—541.; lat., 1—2 1. 
This species is very easily recognised by its closely and asper- 
ately punctured head (which is even more closely and asperately 
punctured in the front part than on the vertex.) Its prothorax 
is considerably more dilated at the base than that of #. sobrina, 
Waterh., with the hind angles notably more divergent. The 
puncturation of the prothorax and elytra is as in £&. sobrina, 
Waterh. In respect of colouring, the unicolorous antenne and 
entirely black elytra seem to form a reliable distinction fronr 
most others of the genus. The “var.?” mentioned above does 
not seem to differ from the type except in the presence of fulvous 
colouring on the elytra. 
Southern Australia (widely distributed). 
E. interioris, sp. nov. Nigra, capite antice antennarum basi 
palpis mandibulis (ad basin) prothorace (magna ex parte): 
elytris (postice et ad latera) sterna (maculatim) et abdomine 
rufis ; modice nitida ; capite antice aspere creberrime (postice: 
minus confertim nec aspere) fortius punctulato ; prothorace 
supra sat equali, confertim (a basi antrorsum gradatim 
magis subtiliter) punctulato, lobo mediano postice anguste- 
rotundato, angulis posticis divergentibus ; elytris in disco 
longitudinaliter impressis, sat fortiter (antice sparsius, 
retrorsum gradatim magis confertim) punctulatis. Long.,. 
ole cleat a 
The red colour of the front part of the head in combination 
with the strong puncturation of the whole of that segment and 
the narrowly rounded sub-acuminate apex of the basal lobe of the 
prothorax distinguishes this species from all its previously des- 
cribed Australian congeners. The black mark on the prothorax 
is probably variable ; in the type it occupies the greater part of 
the segment, and is trilobed in front (the lobes not quite reaching 
the front margin, and having their apices so connected together 
as to enclose two red spots), and bilobed behind (the lobes not 
reaching the base). The elytra may be described as being red, 
with on each of them a somewhat triangular clongate black spot 
which has it base on the base of the elytra, its apex a little: 
beyond the middle, and touches the suture for a greater distance 
than it does the lateral margin. 
In colouring &c., #. wnterioris bears a rough resemblance to: 
the description of #. maculicollis, Bohem., but is no doubt very 
distinct from that species (which is said, infer alia, to have the 
apex of its prothoracic lobe emarginate, and its head ‘ subtiliter 
punctulatum.”) From £#. punctulaticeps it differs, apart from: 
colour, chiefly by the notably less close puncturation of the hind: 
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