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line on the head is deeper and that the punctures on the cl3^peus 

 are more numerous ; most of its appendages are missing. The 

 colour was given as ''stramineo-flavus/' but that of the co-type 

 is now of a reddish-castaneous, with a distinct greenish gloss. 



Rhyparida fulvolimbata, Lef. 

 var. hlackhurni , Jac. 

 PL v., figs. 18 and 19. 



On the typical form of this species the elytra have a fairly 

 wide flavous border, extending from near each shoulder to the 

 apex, but it often terminates before the apex, and sometimes 

 all that is left of it is a small medio-lateral spot. Frequently 

 it is altogether absent, and the form with such elytra has been 

 described by Jacoby as hlachhyrni. The tibiae are usually pale, 

 but occasionally are more or less greenish. The prothorax is 

 usually shining, but on an occasional specimen appears to be 

 lightly shagreened. There are specimens in the Museum from 

 Fortescue River, Roebuck Bay, and Port Denison. The type 

 of fulvolimbata was described as from Sydney, but probably in 

 error. 



Rhyparida apicalis, Jac. 

 Pi. v., figs. 20 and 21. 



The two original specimens of this species dijffered in the 

 punctures of the head and elytra, in the space between the 

 eyes, and in the colours of the legs and elytra. 



Two specimens from Port Denison evidently belong to 

 the species. Each has the sides of the prothorax viiih dense 

 and fairly coarse punctures having a tendency to become 

 oblong and confluent. Their eyes are large, closer together 

 than usual, and there is a conspicuous longitudinal impression 

 between them. One has the shoulders and apical portion of 

 elytra conspicuously paler than the other parts. The sides 

 of the prosternum are conspicuously longitudinally striated. ^^^) 



Five specimens from Gladstone, and two from Mungar 

 Junction, differ from the preceding ones in having the head 

 quite as dark as the prothorax, the eyes smaller and more 

 distant, the lateral punctures of the prothorax smaller, quite 

 round and not at all confluent (although somewhat denser 

 than on the disc), the shoulders and apex of elytra rather 

 obscurely paler than the other parts, and with fairly distinct 

 punctures about apex (although much smaller than about 



(39) As they are on all the other specimens here considered as 

 belonging to the species. Many of the small species of the genus 

 have the sides of the prosternum similarly striated, but I cannot 

 find that such sculpture has been referred to in any previously 

 described species, although presumably some of them must have 

 been so striated. 



