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Hah. — South Australia: Murray River (H. S. Cope). 

 Type (unique), I. 3450. 



In general appearance resembles some of the smaller forms 

 of apicaUs, but elytra wider, prothorax and head with different 

 punctures, striation of prosternum, etc., different. In colour 

 it resembles some forms of the preceding species, but the pro- 

 thoracic punctures are very different. In the table it is 

 associated with interior}!^, but it differs from the species I have 

 doubtfully so identified in colours, punctures of head and pro- 

 thorax, and in the eyes, etc. 



Rhyparida alleni, n. sp. 



Of two or more shades of castaneous. 



Head with moderately dense but rather small punctures, 

 becoming much smaller in front ; with a narrow medio-frontal 

 impression, connected with clypeal suture in front, and with 

 base by a feebly-elevated line ; clypeus with fairly dense and 

 distinct punctures. Eyes fairly large, rather widely separated, 

 a narrow depression behind each. Prothorax about twice as 

 wide as the median length, all angles acutely armed ; with 

 rather small, clearly-defined, unevenly distributed punctures. 

 Elytra rather briefly suboblong, distinctly wider than pro- 

 thorax ; with rows of rather large punctures, becoming smaller 

 towards, but quite distinct to apex. Flanks of jjrosternum 

 striated from base to apex, but rather indistinctly so in places. 

 Femora edentate; claws bifid. Length, 5^,-7 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district (Macleay Museum, 

 E. Allen, and A. M. Lea). Type, I. 3425. 



The sides of the prosternum are rather strongly striated 

 at the base, and lightly but distinctly along the middle. This 

 character will readily distinguish it from some of the varieties 

 of hrevilineata. The elytra, except the sides and suture, are 

 slightly paler than the prothorax, and have rows of watery- 

 looking punctures (on some specimens looking like rows of small 

 infuscate spots) ; the legs are sometimes as dark as the under- 

 surface, but usually are partly flavous. One specimen has a 

 rather large infuscate spot on each side of the prothorax, and 

 some vague postmedian spots on the elytra ; another has a 

 vague spot on the forehead ; its prothorax has sides almost 

 black, and disc with three large blotches, all vaguely connected 

 together, but the outer ones blackish ; each elytron has a dark 

 spot on the shoulder, and a small one on the fourth interstice 

 beyond the middle, and another on the eighth, and each 

 puncture is distinctly infuscated ; parts of its under-surface 

 and the knees are also infuscated. 



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