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greater than the width of the upper surface) and at the apex quite 

 sharply pointed. Thus the rostrum appears from above to be 

 quite slender with a blunt apex, but from the side to be very 

 much wider and more robust, with the apex acuminate. 



The second joint of the funicle being scarcely longer than the 

 3rd joint is also a notable character. 



N. S. Wales ; Blue Mountains. 



LONGICORNES. 



^GOSOMA. 



I refer the following species with some hesitation to this genus 

 of which, unfortunately, I have not a type to compare it with ; 

 neither is there one in the S. Australian Museum. From memory 

 of the genus, however, I can say that the species before me has 

 the general appearance of an jEgosoma, and the following charac- 

 ters show it to be at least very close to it structurally, viz. : eyes 

 strongly granulated, not embracing the base of the antennae and 

 not much approximated above (a little more approximated than 

 .in Nothophysis lucmioides, Serv.) ; metasternal episterna gradually 

 narrowed from the base hindward, their apex obtuse, scarcely half 

 as wide as their base ; prothoracic lateral margins much arched 

 downwards and scarcely continuously existent. 



^GOSOMA Carpentaria^, sp.nov. 



Sat elongatum ; sat parallelum ; minus nitidum ; subtiliter 

 pubescens ; fuscum, pedibus abdomineque nonnihil rufes- 

 centibus ; supra sat rugulose sat crebre nee crasse (elylris 

 retrorsum gradatim magis subtiliter), subtus vix rugulose, 

 punctulatum ; antennis (femina^ ?) quam corpus sat breviori- 

 bus, articulo basali sat brevi, 2° brevissimo (his subnitidis, 

 sat crasse rugulosis), ceteris pubescentibus sat compressis, 

 3'' quam basales 2 conjuncti paullo longiori, articulis 4-11 

 singulis quam 3° paullo brevioribus inter se sat sequalibus, 

 articulo apicali indistincte ai)pendiculato ; prothorace sat 



