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ante medium transversim late impresso (parte coneave 
utrinque abbreviata), sat crebre subgrosse punctulato, 
margine postico retrorsum late rotundato, angulis posticis 
rotundatis ; elytris dupliciter (sc. sat crebre subtiliter et sat 
crebre fortite) nec rugulose punctulatis. lLong., 44 1.; lat., 
3 1. (vix). 
A fine large species, at once distinguishable from its allies by 
the strong puncturation of its upper surface ; the comparatively 
long second joint of its antenne is also a notable character. 
N. Australia ; I am not sure of the exact locality. 
O. tigrina, sp. nov. Ovalis ; flavo-testacea, antennarum articulis 
1°—8? in parte (9° 11° totis) vittis in elytris 4 angustis capite 
postice prothoracis maculis nonnullis metasterni parte magna 
femoribus (basi excepta) tibiarum parte magna tarsisque 
piceis ; antennis minus robustis quam corporis due partes 
longioribus, articulo 3° quam 2“ haud duplo longiori quam 
4"° tertia parte breviori quam 5™ paullo breviori; capite 
inter oculos profunde transversim sulcato, fronte longitudin- 
aliter manifeste impressa ; oculis sat prominulis ; prothorace 
quam longiori duplo latiori, ante medium transversim 
interrupte leviter impresso, coriaceo et sparsim inzequaliter 
leviter punctulato, angulis posticis rotundatis, margine 
postico retrorsum late rotundato; elytris dupliciter (sc. 
subtilissime minus crebre et sat crebre fortius) vix subrugul- 
ose punctulatis. Long.,41.; lat., 25,1. 
Differs from its immediate allies in its somewhat regularly oval 
shape, also in there being four dark vittz on each elytron. These 
are of about equal width and do not reach the apex. The 
subsutural one becomes gradually darker and more defined from 
the base hindward ; the second and third coalesce near their hinder 
end (their common stem coalescing with the other two a little 
before the apex of the elytron) ; the external one exists only im | 
the hinder third part of the elytron. The previously described 
Australian species of Odes having testaceous or yellow elytra 
ornamented with dark vittee (more than one on each elytron) are 
Fryi, Cik., seminigra, Clk., and 6-vittata, Duviv. Of these I know 
only the first except by description. The second is described as 
having its prothorax black with the margins reddish yellow. (I 
have seen no Oides with prothoracic colors at all approaching 
this description.) The third is said to have very short antenne 
not reaching the middle of the elytra, the disc of the prothorax 
with only a few extremely fine punctures, and the elytra with 
more than two vittee—characters which distinguish it from all the 
species of Ozdes known to me. The following table shows the 
characters of the species of this group of Oides :— 
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