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articulo 8" parvo transverse ; elytris fere Isevibus, stria sub- 

 suturali (prope basin excepta) bene determinata, stria 2*' 

 quoque bene determinata, a subsuturali antice late divisa 

 postice contigua (cum hac paullo ante apicem profundiori); 

 tarsorum posticorum articulo basali 2*' 3" que conjunctis vix 

 breviori. Long., 1 1.; lat., ^ 1. 

 A very distinct species, differing from all its described con- 

 geners, except frigidus, Blackb , by the presence of a second 

 stria on the elytra similar to the subsutural stria. In the other 

 species having more striae than the subsutural one the striae are 

 numerous. The present species differs from Jrigidus in its 

 coloring and in the absence of elytral puncturation. In the 

 tabulation of Litocrus (Tr. R.S , S.A., 1902, p. 294) L. maritimus 

 must be placed hesidQ frigidus. 



Victoria; on flowers at the mouth of the Glenelg River. 



NITIDULID.5]. 



HAPTONCURA. 



There are a great number of species of small Nitidulidce allied 

 to Epurcea occurring in Australia, many of which are now before 

 me. I have tried to distribute them among the genera which 

 Reitter distinguished from Epurcea but without success, as few 

 of them fit any of his diagnoses quite satisfactorily and some of 

 those which are the closest inter se incline more or less markedly 

 to fall into different ones of his genera. I have therefore placed 

 them all provisionally in Baptoncura, — which cannot be far 

 wrong for any of them and seems to be certainly right for some. 



Of the species which I have previously attributed to 

 Haptoncura I think victoriensis should be transferred to Ep)urceay 

 and I should suppose (from the description) E. Simsoni, Grouvelle 

 to be extremely close to it ; I presume, however, that it is dis- 

 tinct as I sent victoriensis to M. Grouvelle previously to the time 

 w^hen he described E. Simsoni. 



No other of the species T have previously described, and none 

 of those described below, can be, I think, referred to Epurcea. 

 Some of them probably resemble in many respects E. tasnianicaj 

 Grouv., but I judge from the description of that insect that the 

 lateral margins of its prothorax are not reflexed, which is not the 

 case with any of the species I am now describing. 



Three species of Ha-ptoncura have been described from Aus- 

 tralia by Reitter, — none of which have I seen to my knowledge. 

 H. imperialism Reitter should be unmistakeable on account of 

 the bright sharply defined markings of its upper surface, and the 

 other two (from the extreme North of Queensland, — a locality 

 from which I have not seen any Haptoncura except oculariSy 



