BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 
1503 
Eurispa. 
E. MAJOR, sp.nov. 
Piceo-nigra; supra (capite obscuriore excepto) testacea, abdomine 
medio rufescenti ; prothorace quam latiori tertia parte longiori, 
ante medium constricto, crasse profunde punctulato ; elytris punc- 
tulato-striatis, vix evidenter quadricostatis, apice ]valde productis, 
spinosis ; unguiculis nullis. [l^OHg. 4^-5, lat. 1 line (vix). 
The anterior constriction and large deep puncturation of the 
prothorax, and the sculpture of the elytra (which are punctulate- 
striate, with all the interstices subcostate, — 4 of them slightly 
more strongly and widely than the others) will distinguish this 
species from all its previously described congeners. 
N. Territory of S. Australia ; taken by Mr. J. P. Tepper. 
EROTYLID^. 
Thallis. 
The species of this genus seem to be rather more widely dis- 
tributed than most of the Australian Coleoptera. I have found 
at Port Lincoln T. janthina, compta and vinula described by 
Erichsen on Tasmanian specimens, also a species which does not 
appear to differ from T. Erichseni, Crotch (described from N. S. 
Wales), and another which I take to be T. insueta, Crotch (des- 
cribed from Rockhampton, Queensland). The insect last mentioned 
displays all the strongly marked characters which led Mr. Crotch 
to hesitate in referring insueta to Thallis, and is similarly coloured 
(though a little more brightly than the de.scription would lead one 
to expect) ; it differs, however, in having the prosternum a little 
more prominent behind the coxa3 and a little less coarsely 
sculptured in front than that of T. insueta is said to be, but I do 
not think it can be regarded as a distinct species, — at least without 
an actual compari-son with the type. 
