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Rhyparida fuscosuturalis, n. sp. 



Flavous : suture and apical two-thirds of antennae 

 infuscated. 



Head with fairly dense but small punctures about base, 

 becoming scarcely visible between eyes, but moderately large 

 and numerous on clypeus ; medio-frontal impression narrow 

 and well-defined. Eyes fairly large, prominent, and widely 

 separated. Froth orax about thrice as wide as long, all angles 

 distinctly armed : punctures rather small but sharply defined. 

 El t/tra not much wider than prothorax, sides gently rounded ; 

 with regular rows of fairly large punctures, becoming slightly 

 smaller posteriorly; interstices gently convex throughout, with 

 minute scattered punctures. Flanks of frna.fernuw vaguely 

 striated about base. Femora very minutely dentate; claws 

 bifid. Length, 3f mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Mount Tambourine (A. M. Lea) 

 Type (unique), I. 3114. 



In some respects close to coiiunutahiFts, but slightly more 

 elongate, and prothoracic punctures somewhat larger than on 

 most specimens of that species : but readily distinguished by 

 the elytra: on these the punctures, and striae in which they 

 are placed, are quite strong to the apex, being scarcely less 

 pronounced there than they are at the base. 



Rhyparida bivitticollts, n. sp. 



Of a rather dingy-flavous ; a rather wide vitta on each 

 side of middle of prothorax, scutellum, a wide sutural 

 vitta becoming narrow posteriorly, most of sterna, sides of 

 abdomen, and apical portion of antennae more or less deeply 

 infuscated. 



Head rather narrow, median line distinct but short and 

 entirely free ; punctures minute, except on clypeus, where they 

 are distinct and moderately dense. Froth oraoc not twice as 

 wide as long, sides strongly rounded, all angles armed ; with 

 numerous rather small but distinct punctures on disc, becoming 

 much smaller towards sides. Elytra subovate, apex rather 

 acute : with regular rows of not very large punctures, both 

 punctures and rows becoming feeble posteriorly. Flanks of 

 proftterniim very smooth. Femora edentate; claws bifid. 

 Length, 3 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns. Type (unique), in Macleay 

 Museum. 



In the table associated with tenuis, but not very close to 



that species, from which it differs in having prothorax wider, 



with conspicuous punctures and black vittae, the elytra wider, 



with wide sutural vitta and different punctures, etc. Its 



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