BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 
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less convex, and the puncturation of the striae more evident. 
In one very large female before me the interstices are quite flat and 
the striae punctured throughout as in ordinary examples they are 
punctured near the shoulders (this example, I am told, was taken 
in company with ordinary specimens). So far as I can judge, too, 
the females are less pubescent than the males, but this may be 
accidental. One of the females before me is exceptionally small, 
a,nd resembles the male in the outline of its prothoi’ax; it is just 
possible that it may represent a good species, but I cannot identify 
it with any described, and think it more probably a variety. It 
should be added that in all the specimens I have seen there are 
one or two vague impi’essions on either side of the prothorax near 
the lateral margin. 
Monocrepidius. 
M. Tepperi, sp.nov. 
Fulvo castaneus ; minus nitidus ; minus elongatus ; pube lon- 
giore sat dense vestitus ; prothorace hand canaliculate, trans 
angulos posticos quam longitudine in medio latiori, a basi parum 
angustato, subtilius regulariter sat confertim punctulato, angulis 
posticis parum divaricatis bicarinatis ; elytris prothorace angus- 
tioriVjus, a basi leviter attenuatis, apice vix emarginatis, fortius 
punctulato striatis, interstitiis sat ]>lanis leviter minus confertim 
punctulatis ; protlioracis margine laterali antice in prosternum 
subducto ; tarsorum articuli quarti lamella sat lata. 
[Long. 5J}, lat. 2 lines (vix). 
The above mentioned characters would place this insect in the 
tabulation of species given by M. Candeze (Mon. II. pp. 191, &c.) 
in the same section as lirucki and Jekeli, the former of which is a 
very large broad species from Victoria, and the latter is a very 
anomalous insect (exact habitat unknown), of extremely jtarallel 
form with elytra twice and a half as long as the prothorax, while 
this is a very ordinary-looking Monocrepidiua, with elytra of 
normal form and very evidently less than twice and a-half the 
length of the prothorax down the middle. None of the species 
