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elytra strongly punctate-striate to the apex, flavons, the suture and 

 two short stripes helow the middle, piceous, legs flavous, the knees 

 hlack, — Length, 6-7 mill. 



Head very finely punctured and minutely granulate, with a short 

 central groove, the clypeus separated from the face by a row of 

 punctures only, its surface likewise strongly punctured, its anterior 

 margin deeply concave, labrum fulvous, antennes extending beyond 

 the middle of the elytra, flavous or fulvous, most of the joints 

 stalned with piceous; thorax twice as broad as long, scarcely nar- 

 rowed in front, the sides strongly rounded, somewhat sinuate, the 

 angles produced outwards, the extrême margins piceous, the sur- 

 face fulvous, sparingly and finely punctured, a little more closely 

 so at the sides, the latter with a round black spot ; scutellum piceous ; 

 elytra wider at the base than the thorax, convex, scarcely percepti- 

 bly depressed below the base, flavous, very strongly punctate-striate, 

 the punctures of equal size to the apex, the intermediate rows 

 abbreviated posteriorly, the latéral rows joined at the apex to the 

 suturai ones, the interstices at the sides slightly costate, the third 

 and the seventh interstice with a short piceous stripe below the 

 middle, the underside more or less piceous, legs flavous, the knees 

 piceous, femora unarmed. 



Hah, North Australia. 



This species may easily be mistaken for the variety oi R. limhati- 

 pennis Jac. (Stettin. entom. Zeitg. 1895) which almost, entirely 

 resembles it and is likewise from the north of Australia but in that 

 species the thorax is entirely impunctate and the suture remains of 

 the ground colour, the thorax is also without the two black spots 

 and the legs are entirely fulvous. 



Rhyparida bîmaculata n. sp. — Black, the head, basai joints 

 of the antennœ and the thorax fulvous, the latter impunctate, elytra 

 very finely punctate-striate, fulvous, a suturai spot below the base 

 and a rounded one below the middle on each elytron, black. — 

 Length, 5 mill. 



Head impunctate, the clypeus sparingly but distinctly punctured, 

 its Une of séparation from the face onlyindicatedby some punctures, 

 its anterior edge deeply emarginate, antennse black, the lower five 

 joints fulvous, the second as long as the third joint; thorax not 

 more than one half broader than long, the sides strongly rounded, 

 the anterior margin only about one third less wide than the 

 posterior one, the surface entirely impunctate, fulvous, opaque, 

 scutellum piceous; elytra wider at the base than the thorax, 

 without a basai dépression, finely punctate-striate, the suture with 

 'a short black streak below the scutellum, another roundish black 



