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and the suture, and lastly a triangular patch just below the middle 

 of the disk, usually attached to the sutural vitta, black. Front 

 anterior thighs in the male with a piceous patch. 



DiTEOPiDus PULCHELLUS. Brevitor ovatus, niger, nitidua ; 

 capite thoraceque rufo-fulvis, illo oculis, vertice utrinque anten- 

 nisque extrorsum nigris; hoc sat fortiter punctato, margine basali 

 nigro ; elytris distincte punctato-striatis, interspatiis planis, ex- 

 ternis vix convexiusculis ; utrinque fascia transversa ante medium 

 intus abbreviata, extus ramulum fere ad basin emitteute macvilaque 

 semilunata ante apicem positis, laete fulvis ornatis. Long. 2 lin. 



Sab. South Australia, Adelaide. 



Head distinctly punctured ; jaws, eyes, and an oblique patch on 

 either side of the vertex black ; face excavated between the eyes, 

 the latter widely separated ; five lower joints of antennae fulvous, 

 the rest piceous. Thorax nitidous, bright rufo-fulvous, the basal 

 margin edged with black ; surface rather coarsely but not closely 

 punctured. Elytra distinctly but not strongly punctate-striate ; 

 interspaces plane, impunctate, very faintly wrinkled, those on 

 the outer margin very slightly convex ; third stria from the suture 

 sulcate towards the apex ; extreme apex of elytra coarsely punc- 

 tured ; each elytron with a transverse band, abbreviated at 

 the suture, irregularly sinuate on both its anterior and posterior 

 borders, the outer portion of the former dilated and produced 

 upwards along the outer border of the elytron nearly to the base, 

 and lastly a semilunate subapical patch, fulvoiis. Beneath black, 

 the prothorax, together with the basal portion of the anterior 

 pair of thighs, fulvous. 



DiTBOPiDUS SEEENTjs. Breviter ovatus, postice atteuuatus, 

 convexus, fulvo-piceus, nitidus, antennis pedibusque pallidioribus ; 

 pectore, abdomine, scutello, thoracis margine basali elytrorumque 

 linea suturali nigris ; thorace Isevi ; elytris tenuiter punctato- 

 striatis, striis ad raarginem lateralem magis fortiter punctatis, 

 leviter sulcatis ; interspatiis planis, Isevibus, iis ad latera con- 

 vexiusculis. Long. 1| lin. 



Mab. South Australia. 



Yertex and front smooth, subremotely but not deeply punc- 

 tured ; eyes large, black, broadly separated in the female, less 

 distant in the other sex : antennae slender, rather longer than the 

 head and thorax, five outer joints compressed and slightly dilated, 

 third, fourth, and fifth equal in length. Thorax twice as broad at 



