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distinctly longer than the third, eyes completely margined 

 with pale clothing, the stripes on prothorax much paler, not 

 conjoined at apex and the elytra nowhere black. 



Rhinotia pakva, n. sp. 



Black, basal hall of elytra flavous. Clothed with short 

 pubescence. 



Head strongly convex, with very dense punctures. Ros- 

 trum comparatively short, very feebly curved, with dense 

 punctures except at apical fourth, which is smooth and shin- 

 ing. Antennae long, and not very thin, first joint not as long 

 as second and third combined, and about half the length of 

 eleventh. Frotlioraj: more convex than usual, not much wider 

 than long, median line absent, sides rather strongly rounded; 

 with very dense punctures. Scutellum strongly transverse, 

 feebly bilobed. Elytra very thin, parallel-sided to near 

 apex, which is very distinctly denticulate; with fairly large 

 and almost regular series of punctures; the second, fourth, 

 and sixth interstices feebly raised. />f//s rather thin : femora 

 edentate, posterior extending to middle of second abdominal 

 segment; front tibiae feebly denticulate, the others not at 

 all. Length, 6 mm. 



Hah.—'ne\v South Wales: Tweed River (W. AV. Frog- 

 gatt). 



The black part of the elytra is slightly advanced along 

 the suture, and retarded at the sides, and occupies rather less 

 than half of the surface. The eyes are margined on the 

 front with ochreous pubescence, there is a small spot of 

 similar clothing on each side of base of prothorax, and the 

 pale part of the elytra has similiar clothing, the rest on the 

 upper surface being black. On the under surface the cloth- 

 ing is mostly white and sparse, but is dense below the eyes 

 and across the second, third, and fourth abdominal segments. 



The smallest and thinnest species of the genus. The 

 denticulations at the apex of the elytra are rather larger and 

 less numerous than in elytrura (which has also the suture 

 mucronate). 



Rhinotia hcemoptera, Kirby. 



kirhyi, Bohem. 



Fresh specimens of this species have parts of the sterna 

 clothed with a most beautiful purplish pubescence, which, 

 however, is invisible from certain directions, and becomes 

 obscured with age. 



Two specimens from New South Wales differ from the 

 typical form in having golden pubescence (interrupted in the 

 middle) in the median channel of the prothorax, as well as 



