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et latitudine sua duplo longiori, 6, 7 quadratis, 8 transverso, 9 

 magno, subquadrato, angulo interno apicali valde producto efe 

 appendiculato, 10 minori transverso, intus infra obliquo et appen- 

 diculato, 11 ovato, basi truncato. Prothorax breviter cordatus, 

 longitudine sua fere latior. Elytra mediocriter elongata, basi 

 leviter attenuata, lateribus parum rotundata. Metasternum 

 postice longitudinaliter valde impressum et utrinque tuberculo 

 fasciculate Segmentis ventralibus 2° (primo conspicuo) fere 

 toto longitudinaliter delicatule carinato et postice tuberculis 

 duobus transversis et fasciculatis, ultimo transversim impresso. 

 Femoribus crassis, anticis inflatis ; trochanteribus anticis basi 

 minute dentatis ; tibiis posticis ad apicem gradatim ampliatis, 

 compressis, intus dense breviter ciliatis, ante apicem calcaratis et 

 dense ciliatis. £. Long. L70 mm. 



Clarence River, NT.S.W. (Mr. A. M. Lea). 



This species is stouter than E. amplipes. 



Genus Eupines, King. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S.W. 1866, p. 310; Patranus, Raffray, Lev. 

 d'Ent. 1890, p. 118; Brabaxys, Raffray, ibid. p. 119. 



In the Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1896, pp. 256 and 258, I have 

 pointed out that the genera Patranus, Raffr., Brabaxys, Raffr., 

 and Abryxis, Raffr., are synonymous with Eupines, King. 



Since that time, I have accurately examined each species of 

 those genera in my possession, and I have come to the conclusion 

 that Patranus and Brabaxys are certainly synonyms of Eupines, 

 but that Abryxis is really distinct. This opinion is based on 

 characters of the mesosternum which I had not observed pre- 

 viously, and which I will explain further on. 



As to the characters of the under part of the head which I had 

 used to establish those different genera, they have no value, being 

 exceedingly variable. Sometimes there are three carina, a inn linn 

 and two lateral ones, more or less sinuate, so that the under part 

 of the head appears to be concave, but while the median carina 

 is constant, the edges of the head, which are very sharp in the 



