BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURX. 
1449 
N’orthem Territory o£ S. Australia ; collected by Mr. J. P, 
Tepper. 
OXYOPS, 
0. INTERRUPTUS, Sp.nov. 
Minus brevis ; sat convexus ; niger, parce squamoso-setulosus ; 
rostro sat elongate, apice dilatato, medio postice carinato ; capite 
inter oculos fovea parva instructo ; prothorace quam longiori fere 
dimidio (quam margo anterior fere duplo) latiori, crasse confuse 
rugoso, medio et utrinque latera versus longitudinaliter depresso, 
disco pone medium carinato, a basi ad apicem arcuatim angustato ; 
scutello elongate elevate ; elytris sat elongatis, antice sub- 
parallelis, regulariter convexis, lineatim crasse punctulatis, 
spatia nonnulla rugulosa ferentibus, postice singulatim unituber- 
culatis, humeris externe conico-tuberculatis. 
[Long. 7, lat. 3 lines. 
The specimen before me (which may possibly be abraded) is 
thinly and irregularly clothed with small pale scale-like setse. 
The sculpture of the prothorax consists of ridges or “ wheals,” 
among which are scattered coarse punctures, but the wheals are 
wanting in three vague longitudinal depressions, the middle one 
of which bears a carina in its hinder portion. The elytra are 
here and there strongly rugulose both between row and row of 
punctures and between puncture and puncture in each row, in 
such fashion that the non-rugulose portions appear as connected 
depressions forming on either side (a) a large lateral ti’iangle (with 
its apex nearly touching the suture, and its base on the lateral 
margin, containing in its centre a little rugosity) in front of the 
middle; (b) a stripe running obliquely backward from about the 
second row of punctures to the lateral margin; (c) a vague space 
occupying the apical area in its half next the suture. The only 
tubercles on the elytra are a moderately conspicuous one near 
the apex of the fifth row of punctures and that on the shoulders, 
which is extremely conspicuous ; it is, however, scarcely convex 
on its upper surface, but is directed outward, and has a slightly 
