530 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Maris antennis quam corporis dimidium vix longioribus, articulo 



9° valde dilatato et elongato, segraento 6° apice profunde 



arcuatim einarginato. 



Femina latet. [Long. 2, lat. J line. 



Very like T. Victoriensis, but with the head and base of 



antenna? testaceous-red, and the sexual characters of the antennae 



quite different. 



Victoria ; Upper Yarra River ; sent by C. French, Esq. 



Telephorus nobilitatus, Er. 



The acquisition (through the courtesy of Mr. J. J. Walker, 

 R.N.) of a specimen taken in Tasmania evidently pertaining to 

 this insect enables me to say that T. vibex, Black b., is very near 

 to it, but differs from it considerably in colouring, the elytra being 

 violet (not blue-green) ; the mesosternum entirely, and the meta- 

 sternum for the most part, being yellow (not black) ; and the 

 stigmata of the hind body not being black. In T. vibex, more- 

 over, the elytra are much less punctured anteriorly than in T, 

 nobilitatus, and the part next the suture on either side in its front 

 portion is strongly convex longitudinally, this convex portion 

 being limited externally by a deep longitudiual sulcus. I have 

 seen specimens of T. nobilitatus also from S. Australia and Vic- 

 toria, and a specimen in my collection, said to be from Queensland, 

 scarcely differs except in the testaceous colour of the base of the 

 femora. The males of T. nobilitatus have the hind tibia3 arched 

 somewhat strongly. 



SlLIS AUSTRALIS, sp.nOV. 



Angusta, sat parallela ; breviter pubescens ; minus nitida ; 

 obscure cyanea, capite antice prothoraceque testaceis, tibiarum 

 anticarum et antennarum articulorum basalium basi rufes- 

 centi ; capite antice sat producto, crebre fortius punctulato ; 

 prothorace cordato, quam latiori vix longiori, ut caput punctu- 

 lato, lateribus subtus appendiculatis; elytris fere ut prothorax, 

 sed paullo magis crebre, punctulatis ; antennis quam corporis 

 partes duae vix longioribus. [Long 3, lat. t line. 



