BY H. J. CARTER. 525 



with pale red pubescence, posterior tarsi with 1st and claw-joint 

 suhequal. Dimensions, 13x5 mm. 



^. Wanting. 



Hah. — Claudie River, North-East Queensland. 



A single specimen, from the Melbourne Museum, is an ally of 

 N. fusGovestitam mihi, but is wider and more convex, especially 

 in the prothorax, while without the strong hairy clothing of that 

 species. The lateral tooth of the prothorax is more pronounced 

 than in N". fuscovestitum. Type in the National Museum, Mel- 

 bourne. 



The following is a table of the Australian species of Stroiiyy- 

 liuni. 



Strongylinm Kirby. 

 1(5) Colour more or less metallic. 



2. Head, prothorax, and elytra green-bronze.... aiistrale Miikl. 



3(5) Head and prothorax black, elytra blue. 



4. Size larger (12-14 X 5 mm.), intervals of elytra nearly flat... J/ac/eayi Pa?c. 



5. Size smaller (9-5x3 mm.), elytra faintly cyaneous, intervals 



sharply convex corrugatum, n.sp. 



6(12) Colour non-metallic, elytra black. 



7. Prothorax red ruji coll e Mac] . 



8-12. Prothorax black. 



9. Elytral intervals flat MaaUrn Macl. 



10(13) Elytral intervals more or less convex. 



11. Pronotum minutely punctate, legs very long lonyipes, n.sp. 



12. Pronotum distinctly, not closely nor deeply punctate 



cylindripenne , n.sp. 



13. Pronotum densely and deeply punctate pmictithorax, n.sp. 



Strongylium longipes, n.sp. 



Elongate, subcylindric, nitid-black, tarsi, apical joint of an- 

 tennae and edge of maxillary palpi red. 



Head very tinely punctate, more closely on the epistoma than 

 on forehead, the former rounded "in front, the canthi strongly 

 raised and impinging on the eyes; these large and approximate, 

 in the ^ only separated in front by a thin carina triangularly 

 widened behind, in the 9 the space between eyes about 0-7 mm. 

 Antennae : joint 1 stout, 2 half as long as 1, 3 and 4 suhequal, 

 4-8 gradually shorter and wider (at apex), 9-10 of same length 



