BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 
1501 
I rom Rwpilia ruficollis, Clark, wliich this insect must resemble 
rath ^r closely, it would seem to be distinguished hiter alia by the 
unifcrm colour of the antennae, the much finer puncturation of 
the elytra, by the depressions on those organs and by that on the 
scutellum. 
N. Territory of S. Australia ; taken by Prof. Tate and by Mr. 
J. P. Tepper. 
Menippus. 
M. MACULICOLLIS, Sp.llOV. 
Oblongus ; robustus ; undique pube aurea adpressa vestitus ; 
f uscus vel ferruginous ; vertice in medio, prothorace ad latera 
antice et basi in medio, elytris latera apicemque versus, scutelloj 
antennis, mandibulis apice, femoribus maculis nonnullis, tibiis, 
tarsis, et meso-metaque sternis ad latera, nigro-piceis ; capite 
prothoraceque confuse obscure (hoc antice latera versus distincte 
sat crebre), scutello elytrisque crebre subfortiter, punctulatis ; 
capite postice longitudinaliter canaliculate ; prothorace quam lon- 
giori duplo latiori, antice late fortiter transversim arcuatim sulcato, 
marginibus antico et postico leviter subangulatim eniarginati.s, 
lateribus (sulci transversi incisura) pone medium emarginatis • 
antennis longitudine corporis dimidio sequalibus, sat validis. 
[Long. 4^, lat. 24 lines. 
The cliaracters of this insect seem to agree very well in all 
respects with those attrib\ited to Menippus. The colour of the 
elytra varies a good deal, the ground tint in dark specimens being 
so pitchy as to obscure the markings ; in the darkest specimen 
Vjefore me the elytra are of an almost unicolorous pitchy black. 
The short golden pubescence with which the insect is clothed is 
spread over the whole surface including the legs and antenme but 
seems to be very deciduous on the head and prothorax which in 
most of the examples before me are nitid and almost glabrous. 
The black spots on the head and prothorax will distinguish this 
species from M. cynicus, Clark, also from Galeriica semipullata, 
Clk., which latter moreover seems to have simple claws since 
