*22Z Afthitr M. Lai : 



thickened and flavous ; under surface of first and second, and 

 ■concave upper portion of second joints of antennae, somewhat 

 flavous. With comparatively sparse, but erect dark hairs. 



Head longer than usual, moderately convex, with a faint median 

 line. Eyes larger than usual. Antennae rather short. Two basal 

 joints large. Frothorax slightly longer than wide; sides somewhat 

 oblique from apex to apical third, thence incurved to base, which 

 is rather narrow. FAiitra with some small punctures marking o2 

 the sutural and lateral tliickeniugs, but elsewhere impunctate, or 

 almost so. Front iarsi witli tlie twu basal joints apparently con- 

 joined. Length, '2\ mm. 



Ilah. — Queensland : Dalby (Mrs. F. H. Hobler). 



A minute species, not very close to any other known to me, but 

 -evidently belonging to Fairmaire's first section of the genus, and 

 allied to guttulatus; from the description of which it differs in the 

 median fascia of the elytra not touching the sides, although the 

 sides against which it terminates are pale, but of a decidedly dif- 

 ferent colour; the apex not spotted, and the tibiae no paler than 

 tlie femora. 



The first joint of the antennae is ratlier thin at its basal fourth, 

 but thence is rather strongly inflated. The second is about as long 

 as the first, but much wider, convex on its lower surface, and con- 

 ■cave on its upper, with the outer margins irregularly folded over 

 the concavity. 



Laius alle/ii. Lea. 



On several occasions Mr. Allen wrote to me that he considered 

 this remarkable species to be a carrion beetle; but as no other mem- 

 ber of the whole family is known to be such, I concluded that he 

 had confused the species with the connnon carrion-beetle, yecj-obia 

 rufipes, a species which in size and colour, except of the legs, it 

 very greatly resembles. Recently, however, Mr. Allen sent nineteen 

 specimens of the species, and wrote of them, " You were dubious 

 about those being carrion-beetles. I have ocular demonstration 

 regarding these specimens, as I caught the bulk of them in head 

 •of a fish (severed), lying on the beach, the fish had only been caught 

 that day, and the head was not putrid. I remember now taking the 

 •original specimens on rocks, wave-washed, along the sea-beach. 



Neocarphiirus 7)//o,>f//>f z/?//."*, n.sp. 

 J^ Black; head (a spot on forehead excepted), antennae (three 

 or four apical joints excepted), palpi, and extreme base of pro- 

 thorax flavous; parts of front legs, and sometimes knees of middle 



