248 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



joint longer than 2nd-3rd combined, 2nd not much shorter than 

 3rd, 3rd-10th subequal, serrate internally, 11th scarcely once and 

 a half as long as 10th; base and sides finely corrugated; fovete 

 of undersurface moderate in size, almost connected, walls feebly 

 wrinkled. Prothorax oblong, as wide as head (excluding eyes), 

 angles slightly rounded ; a broad shallow impression at base, and 

 a shallower interrupted one at apex. Sides of elytra emarginate 

 at a third from the apex, at the posterior end of this emargination 

 a short stalk — carrying a small globule — projects outwards and a 

 little forwards; this globule is somewhat different in colour to the 

 apex; each separately rounded. Anterior tarsi with basal joint 

 small, not much longer than second. Length to apex of elytra 3, 

 of abdomen 4 J; width l^-mm. 



9. Differs in having the elytra simple, shorter and thinner 

 antennae, and smaller head. 



Hah. — Adelaide (Messrs. Blackburn and Masters); Mt. Lofty, 

 S.A. (Lea). 



The colour of this species is very distinct from either of its 

 armed congeners. 



Carphurus carinaticeps, n.sp. 



^. Elongate, shining, depressed. Black; prothorax with a 

 faint purplish reflection and indistinctly diluted with brown; basal 

 third of antennae and prothorax dull red; undersurface of head, 

 knees, and apices of coxae obscure red. Above with a few long 

 blackish hairs, undersurface almost glabrous. Head densely, 

 minutely but distinctly punctate; the prothorax and el3^tra sparsely 

 and obsoletely, flanks of meso- and metasternum minutely, 

 abdomen indistinctly punctate. 



Head strongly transverse, with three distinct longitudinal 

 carinse — one on each side directly behind antennae and close to the 

 eyes, the third in the middle — commencing at the clypeus and 

 terminating slightly before the others, from some directions all of 

 them appear to be double; antennae short, reaching posterior coxae, 

 1st joint as long as 2nd-3rd combined, 2nd-10th subequal, 2nd sub- 

 cylindric, 3rd-10th broadly obconic, 11th acuminate, as long as 



