BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 
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nearly or quite reaches the apex, but at about three-fifths of its 
length the suture becomes dark again and appears as a narrow 
stripe dividing the hinder part of the rufous spot j the anterior 
three-fifths of the lateral margins also are rufous, — in some ex- 
amples rather widely (especially towards the front), in othei-s very 
narrowly. Of the antenna the basal three joints (and in some 
specinaens the base of the fourth) are rufous ; the palpi are tipped, 
with piceous. The clypeus is separated from the front by a trans- 
verse furrow, and the latter bears a longitudinal furrow. The 
prothorax is slightly more than half again as wide as long ; its 
sides are nearly straight in their hinder two-thirds, then a little 
rounded and converging to the apex ; the base is about a third 
again as wide as the front margin ; the angles are all acute and 
pointed outward. 
X. Territory of S. Australia ; taken by Mr. J. P. Tepper. 
Pi. AMPLICOLLIS, Sp.nOV. 
Ovata ; nitida ; rufa ; genubus nigris ; elytris regione suturali 
antice late subseneis, latera versus nonnuUis exemplis longitudin- 
aliter jeneo-notatis ; clypeo fortiter sat crebre, fronte sparsim sub- 
tiliter, prothorace fortius nec sparsim (antice subtiliter, ad latei-a 
ipsa rix distincte) punctulatis ; scutello fere impunctulato ; elytris 
sat fortiter punctulato-striatis, striis intemis antice leviter im- 
pressis, interstitiis subtilissime punctulatis ; femoribus posticis 
inermibus. [Long. 3|, lat. 21 lines (vix). 
A very short wide insect. The clypeus is separated from the 
front by a well-defined furrow, the latter being longitudinally 
channelled. The prothorax is very nearly twice as wide as down 
the middle it is long ; its sides are strongly rounded, its angles all 
acute and jX)inted outward ; its base about a third wider than its 
front margin ; the marginal j>ortion of the surface all round 
(most widely at the sides) is nearly without punctures ; on the 
punctured space thus enclosed the punctures are quite strong and 
close on the sides but become somewhat finer towards the middle. 
On the elytra the striae are scarcely impressed except near the sides 
