182 Arthur M. Lea: 
A remarkable species which I refer to Notonophes solely on account of the 
tuberele over each eye as in cichlodes, the type of the genus. T'he projecting sides 
of the prothorax and peculiarly sculptured rostrum, as well as the tubercles, are also 
very distinetive features, whether the species be referred to Notonophes or Talaurinus. 
A specimen belonging to the Berlin Museum is labelled *56807 Adelaide 
Schomb”. Dr. Ferguson to whom it was shown, writes me that Adelaide probably 
means Adelaide River (N. Territory); he also informs me that he has a specimen 
from Princess Charlotte Bay (Queensland). 
The elothing is very variable, and usually of a slaty grey, more or less mottled 
with brown. On the Museum specimen (a female) there is a large subtriangular 
dark patch on the side at about the middle of each elytron, the apex of the triangle 
almost touching the suture; the greater portion of the apical half of the posterior 
deelivity has dark clothing, and there are several small patches elsewhere; its pro- 
thoraeie elothing is mostly of a rather pale brown, with a conspicuous median stripe 
(which is continued on to the head for a short distance, where it divides a dark 
and somewhat velvety spot into two parts); its sides from the rostrum to apex of 
elytra appear to have numerous small black spots, owing to the absence of clothing 
from some of the punctures and granules. 
The type specimens have the markings on the head and prothorax as in the 
Museum specimen, but on the elytra the irregular triangles are absent, as well as 
the apical blotch; the markings consisting of numerous feeble small mottlings, more 
noticeable towards the suture than elsewhere. On the elytra the setae are denser on 
the suture than elsewhere. The notch near the apex of the middle tibiae of the 
male is quite distinet from some directions, but invisible from others. 
Two males from Port Darwin, which appear to belong to this species, differ in being 
smaller (12 mm) and somewhat narrower, with the dilated portion of the prothorax 
less angular, and its granules less conspicuous. The slaty grey clothing covers more 
of the surface, the velvety spots on the head are practically absent and the protho- 
racic clothing is almost uniform. The elytra have the apex and the median triangles 
somewhat as in the museum specimen, but the other markings absent. Their setae 
are also rather longer than in the other specimens. 
66. N. dumosus, Mael. 
67. N. spinosus, Macl. 
68. Acantholophus tasmaniensis, n. sp. 
Black. Clothed with fine whitish setae or pubescence, giving the surface a 
greyish appearance; prothorax usually with a feeble whitish median line. Under 
surface with stiff blackish setae. 
Head on each side at its junetion with rostrum, with a strong, curved, sub- 
conical, simple tubercle. A subtriangular tubercle on each side of rostrum above 
middle of serobe. Prothorax with a very irregular row of tubercles or large 
granules on each side of middle, the tubercles so disposed that six of them usually 
enclose a roughly eircular median space; two small tubereles on each side of middle 
in front of subapical constriction, and one on each side of middle behind subbasal 
constrietion, a small tuberele on each side of apex, a double tuberele (the front 
