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FURTHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
subtiliter coriaceo ; elyti’is (antice sat fortiter, jx)stice gradatim 
subtilius) punctulato-striatis ; femoribus posticis inermibus. 
[Long. 85 , lat. lines. 
? hujus specie! var. yEnea, punctis in elytrorum striis majoribus 
et magis remotis. 
The clypeus is continuous with the hinder part of the head, 
which bears a longitudinal furrow ; this furrow deepens and 
widens forward, being more or less forked at its apex, so that in 
some specimens there appears to be a pseudo-separation from the 
clypeus all the more apparent in occasional specimens with the 
clypeal puncturation a little stronger than usual. The prothorax 
is about half again as wide as long and is nearly twice as wide at 
the base as across the front margin ; the sides are scarcely 
rounded, the anterior angles acute and pointed outward, the 
posterior scarcely so. The interstices of the striae on the elytra 
are sparingly and very finely punctured. 
I do not feel sure that the “var. ? ” mentioned above is not a 
very closely allied distinct species ; in addition to the difierences 
already specified the sides of the prothorax are a little more 
rounded. 
y. Territory of S. Australia j taken by Mr. J. P. Tepper. 
R. HERBACEA, Sp.nOV. 
Late ovalis, postice sat angustata ; minus nitida ; supra sub- 
tiliter coriacea ; viridis ; antennis (ba.si rufa excepta), tarsisque, 
piceis ; labro, prothorace, scutello, pro- et meso-sternis, nonnullis 
exemplis metasterno latera versus, coxis, femoribus, tibiisque, 
rufis ; capite leviter, prothorace levi.s.sime, sparsim punctulatis ; 
scutello irapunctulato ; elytris subtiliter (ftostice etiam magis sub- 
tiliter) punctulato-striatis, interstitiis baud punctulatis ; femoribus 
posticis inermibus. [Long. 3, lat. 1| lines. 
The clypeus Is continuous with the hinder part of the head 
which bears a longitudinal fovea deepening and widening forward. 
The prothorax is nearly twdce as wide as long, its base nearly twice 
as wide as its front margin, front anglas acute, hind scarcely so, 
