236 INSECTS OF THE CAIRNS DISTRICT, NORTHERN QUEENSLAND, 



reddish-yellow ; all the rest of the body, the legs and the antennse, 

 black. The antennae are inserted almost under the eyes : all the 

 joints from the second are of about equal size ; the front of the 

 head is vertical and broadly but lightly depressed in the middle. 

 Thorax nearly twice broader than long, quadrangulai-, margined on 

 all sides, the apex truncate, the base a little rounded, and all the 

 angles rather rounded, with two fovete on each side, and without a 

 median line. Elytra about five times the length of the thorax, 

 and scarcely wider than it, parallel-sided, broadly almost semi- 

 truncately rounded at the apex, densely clothed with a very minute 

 silky yellow pubescence, (which is found on all parts of the insect, 

 but less dense) and minutely and densely rugose-punctate, with 

 a few obsolete longitudinal lines. The body is thick, the feet 

 slender, the eyes small and pi'ominent. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Hah. — Mossman River. 



46. Telephorus rubriceps. 



Head, thorax, elytra excepting the apex, and the presternum 

 reddish-yellow, the rest black. Head without frontal depression, 

 antennpe taking their rise between the eyes ; the first joint large, 

 the third shorter than the fourth. Thorax broader than long, the 

 margins more expanded and the angles more rounded than in T. 

 Mossinanni, and the fovese on the sides less distinct ; the median 

 line is distinctly marked. The elytra are rounded and tipped with 

 black at the apex, sculpture and clothing are much the same as in 

 T. Mossmanni, but the puncturation is still more minute and 

 obsolete. 



Length, 3|^ lines, 



Hah. — Mossman River. 



47. Telephorus rufivbntris. 

 Of broad robust form, the head, thoi-ax, elytra excepting the 

 apical fourth, the abdomen, the sterna and the coxse and base of 

 the thighs reddish-yellow. The head is longitudinally impressed 

 in front, the antennae are inserted almost beneath the eyes, are 

 thick and rather short, the third joint shorter than the fourth, the 



