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considerably longer in proportion to the 4th, and its legs evidently 

 shorter and stouter. The depressed portions of the prothorax are 

 black, — in strong contrast to the orange-red elevated parts. On 

 the elytra the black markings are almost as extensive as the 

 orange-red colour : they are very vaguely dispersed, but neverthe- 

 less can be regarded as forming two extremely ill-defined fasciae 

 (one basal, the other median) and an evidently better defined 

 common spot near the apex. 



An example (from N.W. Australia) in my collection appears to 

 me to be the male of this species ; it scarcely differs from the 

 specimen described above, except in the way that T. hamata, 

 Newm., diff'ers from its female, i.e., by the more cylindrical form 

 (this difference is a little more marked than in hamata), the less 

 strongly transverse ])rothorax, and the longer antennae (in this 

 example they scarcely reach beyond the apex of the elytra) ; it 

 also shows a greater predominance of the orange-red colouring on 

 the elytra, but the black markings although reduced in quantity 

 are evidently what those of Mr. Frenches example would be if 

 some of them were effaced ; this difference is not likely to be even 

 of sexual value. 



N. Queensland; Cape York; in the collection of C. French, Esq. 



Paphora robustior, sp.nov. 



Sat robusta ; fusca ; pube grisea sparsim vestita ; prothorace 

 quam latiori sublongiori, medio cicatricoso ; elytris oblongis 

 ad apicem rotundato-truncatis ; podibus sat validis ; antennis 

 (femin?e) quam corpus raulto brevioribus. 



[Long. 5^, lat. 1-| lines. 

 Very like P. mochsta, Pasc, but larger and of more robust form 

 and darker colour, with legs and antennae evidently stouter and 

 the apex of each elytron broadly rounded, almost subtruncate (the 

 elytra of P. mod^sta are much more narrowed at the apex). I 

 have seen numerous specimens of C. modesta of both sexes, so that 

 I am confident the above-mentioned differences indicate a good 

 species. 



