326 INSECTS OF THE CAIRNS DISTRICT, NORTHERN QUEENSLAND, 



Family EROTYLID^. 



91. Languria australis. 



Black, very nitid, the thorax and head bright red. Head quite 

 smooth and nitid. Thorax smooth and nitid, much longer than 

 broad, scarcely wider than the head, the base and apex of 

 equal width and the sides a little rounded in the middle. Elytra 

 at the base not wider than the middle of the thorax, gradually 

 narrowed to the apex, about four times the leng-th of the thorax, 

 a deeply impressed stria on each side of the suture and eight very 

 fine stride densely and finely punctate on each elytron, the inter- 

 stices smooth. The under surface is very finely and thinly 

 punctured, the sterna reddish. 



Length, 4 J lines. 



Hah. — Cairns. 



92. Episcaphula gigas. 



Oblong-oval, black, subnitid. Head very thinly punctate, semi- 

 circularly impressed between the antennae on the clypeal suture, 

 clypeus rounded and thickened at the apex, labrum very short, 

 rounded in front, the third joint of the antennae twice the length 

 of the fourth. Thorax transverse, strongly margined at the sides, 

 emarginate in front, bisinuate behind, the anterior angles acute 

 and prominent, the posterior square, a large shallow depression at 

 the base on each side of the median lobe, filled with coarse 

 punctures. The colour is black with a dark red broad zig-zag 

 fascia occupying the sides and most of the centre. Scutellum 

 transverse, rounded behind. Elytra very little wider than the 

 thorax and about four times the length, faintly striate-punctate, 

 black with a patch at the base surrounding the humeral angles, 

 and a fascia near the apex, not touching either the side or suture, 

 of a deep dull red. The under surface is black, and very sparingly 



