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Aiitemiffi subpectinate. 



Abdomen testaceous, apical segments black. 



Scutellum black ■•^cajyidatna, Fairm. 



Sc'itellum testaceous or reddish. 



Elytra with the base testaceous lepidiis, n. sp. 



Elytra concolorous apiciventris, n. sp. 



Abdomen black. 



Legs testaceous rhagonychiniis, Fairm. 



Legs black, with testaceous markings pictvpe>i, n.sp. 

 Abdomen black, basal segments with more 



or less red hifoveatus, n.sp. 



Balanophorus Mastersi, Macl.; Mast. Cat. Sp. N'o. 3440. 



This species ranges down the entire east coast and for some 

 distance inland; specimens are in the Macleay Museum from Cape 

 York to Melbourne. The male possesses a most peculiar comb; 

 it is situated on the inner edge of the first joint of the anterior 

 tarsi, and consists of about sixty closely set elongate teeth; it 

 commences at the base and is continuous round the aj^ex almost 

 to the outer margin; under a Coddington lens it appears as a 

 black margin, but a moderately low power of the microscope 

 renders it visible. As will be noticed I have described a number 

 of species of Carphurus and Helcog aster as possessing combs; there 

 is a somewhat similar comb on the intermediate tibia3 of a species 

 of Staphylinidce in the Collection of the Rev. R. L. King (now in 

 the Sydney Museum). 



Balanophorus Macleayi, n.sp. 



^. Elongate, shining, subdepressed. Testaceous; apical two- 

 thirds of antennae, meso-, metasternum, two aj^ical segments of 

 abdomen, four posterior femora and apex of tibise black; apical 

 two-fifths of elytra dark purple. Head, prothorax, abdomen and 

 legs with sparse blackish hair; elytfa and sterna with sparse, 

 short, pale pubescence. Head and prothorax sparsely and min- 

 utely, elytra not very densely, minutely, and obsoletely punctate; 

 undersurface almost impunctate. 



Head transverse; eyes very large and prominent, their com- 

 bined width being more than half the total width of head; a 



