252 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



scarcely if at all wider than head, apex strongl}^ rounded, base 

 truncate and narrowly margined its entire length; a broad shallow 

 impression at base and traces of another at apex. Elytra almost 

 parallel-sided, each feebly separately rounded. Length to apex of 

 el3'i:ra 4 J, of abdomen 7; width IJ nim. 



Hah. — ^Como, near Sydney. 



Very similar in shape to C. alterniventris and, except for the 

 ventral segments, similar in colour; there are several other feeble 

 distinctions. 



Carphurus longicollis, n.sp. 



(J. Elongate, shining, depressed. Black; prothorax with a faint 

 purplish reflection, head (except eyes, apex and cutting edges of 

 mandibles, and a brownish blotch on the undersurface), three first 

 joints of antennae, prothorax, and two apical segments of abdomen, 

 red. Covered all over — sparsest on head, densest towards apex of 

 abdomen — with long blackish hairs; elytra and sterna at the 

 sides with obscure, sparse, pale and rather short pubescence. 

 Head and prothorax with sparse minute punctures; elytra densely, 

 minutely and obsoletely punctate ; undersurface indistinctly 

 punctate. 



Head much longer than wide; eyes small, prominent; the width 

 across them much greater than at base; a shallow depression on 

 each side behind the antennae; mandibles rather prominent; 

 antennae rather flat, passing intermediate coxae; 1st joint slender, 

 arcuate, a trifle longer than 2nd-3rd combined, 2nd subglobular, 

 not quite the length of 3rd, 3rd-10th broad, subequal, 11th very 

 little longer than and not quite the length of 10th; feebly corru- 

 gated at base, sides and undersurface; foveae rather small and 

 rough-walled. Prothorax much longer than wide, as long as head, 

 and at its widest slightly more than head across eyes, widest near 

 apex, angles rounded; a distinct and rather deep impression at 

 base, and a shallower interrupted one at apex; base narrowly 

 margined. Elytra rather strongly dilating towards apex, not 

 more than one and a quarter times as long as the width at apex, 

 each obliquely truncate. Anterior tarsi with basal joint narrow, 



