256 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



separately rounded. Anterior tarsi with basal joint thick, longer 

 than three following combined, and having a black comb inwardly. 

 Length to apex of elytra 4, width 1^ mm. 



Hah. — Galston. 



Differs from C. scajyulatus in having the head concolorous, 

 the testaceous marking of the elytra much larger, and by its 

 differently coloured legs. My unique specimen has the abdomen 

 considerably shrunken. 



Carphurus pictipbs, n.sp. 



9. Elongate, shining, depressed. Black; muzzle, undersurface 

 of first three antennal joints, prothorax, anterior coxse, knees, 

 half of posterior tibise, and basal joint of tarsi, testaceous. Covered 

 all over — sparsest on middle of meso-, metasternum and head — 

 with short pale pubescence; above with blackish hair, sparsest on 

 prothorax, longest on abdomen. Head and prothorax sparsely 

 and minutely, elytra very densely, minutely and obsoletely punc- 

 tate; flanks of meso- and metasternum minutely, abdomen very 

 minutely punctate. 



Head scarcely longer than wide; eyes rather large, not very 

 prominent, a foveate impression on each side between them (from 

 some directions appearing as two, in others as four longitudinal 

 fovea3); antennae reaching posterior coxa?, 1st joint scarcely as 

 long as 2nd-3rd combined, 2nd decidedly shorter than 3rd, 3rd- 

 10th subequal in length, 4th-5th triangular, 6th-10th subpecti- 

 nate, 11th elongate-ovate, as long as the inner edge of 10th; sides 

 and undersurface corrugated; fove?e rather large, round, rough- 

 walled, open behind. Prothorax strongly rounded, longer than 

 wide, not the width of head; an extrejnely shallow and very 

 indistinct impression at base, a stronger interrupted one at apex; 

 base very feebly margined, and feebly sinuate. Elytra one and a 

 half times as long as head and prothorax coml^ined, sides gradually 

 widening to apex, each feebly separately rounded. Length to 

 apex of elytra 4 J, of abdomen 6; width If mm. 



Eab. — Como, near Sydney. 



