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recorded again. In any case Sintectes carinatus, Westw., 

 belongs to the genus Tmesiphorus, the figure and the description 

 leaving no doubt about it. 



Tmesiphobus formicinus, Macleay. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S.W. ii. 1863, p. 370. 



I received from Mr Lea two specimens which he considers as 

 co-types of T. formicinus, Macl. The punctuation is dense, fine, 

 and rugose on the head and prothorax which are opaque, on the 

 elytra and the abdomen it is not rugose and not so dense ; the 

 pubescence is rather long and fine; the last joint of the maxillary 

 palpi is shorter and more rounded externally; the joints of the 

 antenna? 4-8 are more and more transverse, 9-10 much larger, 

 nearly transverse, with the sides a little rounded and both of the 

 same size, the I lth is ovate, acuminate, not truncate at the base; 

 the prothorax has the disc evenly rounded and the sides not 

 sinuate, the fovea? are much smaller; the carina? on the elytra are 

 more obsolete and shorter; the carina? of the abdomen are much 

 smaller and conspicuous only on the first segment and on the base 

 of the second one; the metasternum and the second ventral seg- 

 ment are only a little depressed in the middle; in the g the 10th 

 joint of the antenna? is somewhat notched in the middle beneath; 

 the metasternum and ventral segment more impressed. 



Tmesiphorus termitophilus, n.sp. 



Castaneus, niticlus, elytris dilutioribus, brevissime et rude 

 ochraceo-pubescens. Caput grosse et confertim punctatum, antice 

 attenuatum, fronte sulcatum, inter oculos foveis duabus magnis, 

 temporibus pone oculos acute prominentibus. Palpi testacei, 

 articulis 2 apice incrassato, 3 suboblongo, medio extus leviter 

 dilatato, ambobus longe appendiculatis, 1 pra?cedenti haud longiori, 

 apice intus valde et longe acuminato, extus rotundato. Antenna? 

 valida?, crassa?, compacts?, cylindrica?, absque clava, et apice vix 

 crassiores, articulis 1 magno, 2 subquadrato, 3 paulo longiori, 

 subobconico, 4 latitudine sua vix longiori, 5 paulo longiori, 6 fere 



