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twice as wide as long, its base not half again as wide as its 
front margin, the front angles (though small) acute and pointed 
outward, the hind hardly so, the sides gently rounded ; the 
puncturation is veiy strong and rather close, and is mixed with 
a very different system of faint sparse punctures ; the coarse 
puncturation does not extend to the edges of the surface, being 
completely surrounded with a rather narrow strip on which there 
is only the shallow sparse puncturation scarcely visible save under 
a strong lens. The scutellum is impunctate. The stria; of the 
elytra are scarcely impressed in front, but their punctures are 
there large and deep ; hindward the strise become more distinctly 
impressed and the punctures finer ; the interstices are rather 
closely and distinctly (though finely) punctulate. 
N. Territory of S Australia ; taken by Mr. J. P. Tepper. 
R. MOROSA, Jac. 
I have before me several examples from the N. Territory which 
may be this insect. They agree fairly well with the description but 
are scarcely so vndely ovate as I should expect, and are greenish- 
(not bluish-) black in colour. In all probability they represent a 
distinct species but if so it is one that it would not be wise to 
name without a comparison of specimens, and I therefore abstain 
from naming it. 
R. INTERIORIS, Sp.nOV. 
Ovata ; nitida ; testaceo-rufa ; clypeo sat fortiter rugulose, 
fronte sparsius obscure, prothorace sat fortiter subrugulose, 
punctulatis; elytris (antice distincte, postice obsolete) punctulato- 
striatis ; femoribus posticis vix subdentatis. 
[Long. 1?, lat. I line. 
In the example before me the head, prothorax, and all the 
underside (including the coxie) are of a decidedly reddish tone, the 
antennge, elytra, and legs being pale testaceous, but probably the 
shades of colour might vary in other specimens. The clypeus is 
continuous wdth the hinder part of the head, which bears a very 
fine longitudinal impressed line. The prothorax is about half 
