250 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Elytra about as long as head and prothorax combined, about one 

 and a half times as long as the width at base, each feebly 

 separately rounded (almost truncate), shoulders very feebly 

 rounded. Length to apex of elytra 2^, of abdomen 5^; width 

 1 mm. 



Bab.— Forest Reefs, N.S.W. 



A very distinct species, unlike any other known to me; it 

 should perhaps constitute the type of a new genus. 



Carphurus fasciipennis, Fairm., Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 3426. 



This is a somewhat common species in Northern Queensland. 

 The elytral fascia is subject to considerable variation; some speci- 

 mens have it occupying almost the entire surface, in others it is 

 small, appearing as a dark sutural macula, and in others again it 

 is entirely obsolete. Some specimens are twice as large as others. 



Carphurus angustatus, n.sp. 



9. Very narrow, parallel-sided, depressed, feebly shining. 

 Black; first three antennal joints beneath, palpi (excej)t apical 

 joint), a semicircle at base of undersurface of head, and pro- 

 thorax, red; elytra dark green (in some lights with an obscure 

 purplish reflection); base of cox?e diluted with red. Covered all 

 over with long blackish hair, and — except on prothorax — with short 

 pale pubescence. Head densely — especially at sides — and minutely 

 punctate; prothorax sparsely and obsoletely, the elytra densely, 

 not ver}^ strongly, and somewhat rugosely punctate; sides of meso- 

 and metasternum distinctly but minutely, the abdomen very 

 minutely punctate. 



Head longer than wide; eyes small, moderately prominent; a 

 depression on each side forming an oblique ridge behind the base 

 of the antenna?, a very shallow impression on the disk (from 

 behind appearing as a small fovea); antennae slender, almost 

 reaching apex of elytra, joints cylindrical, 1st fully as long as 2nd- 

 3rd combined, 2nd distinctly shorter than 3rd, 3rd-10th gradually 

 increasing in length, 11th acuminate, scarcely one and a half 

 times as long as 10th; base and sides feebly corrugated; fovea? of 



