COLEOPTEEA.—LEA. 211 



NECCARPHURUS AIIGUSTIBASIS sp. nov. 

 9 Black and highly polished ; muzzle, basal half of antenna?, and extreme 

 base of prothorax ilavons. 



Head deeply impressed between eyes; inter-antennary space elevated and 

 subtubereulate. Antenna? rather long and thin, none of the joints transverse. 

 Prothorax longer than wide, apex more than twice the width of base, sides 

 strongly rounded and narrowed from apex to near base, and then sul)parallel to 

 base, which is feebly bilobed, a deep, transverse, open, subbasal depression. 

 Elytra slightly wider than widest part of prothorax, in parts slightly undu- 

 lating; almost impunctate. Basal joint of front tarsi lopsided, with an inner 

 comb. Length ( (J 9 V 2-5-8 nun. 



9 Differs in having the head smaller, without transverse impression, 

 inter-antennary space very feebly elevated, antennte thinner, and front tarsi 

 simple. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district (F. P. Dodd and A. M. Lea) ; Innis- 

 fail. — Type, /■ 913:2 in South Australian ]\Iuseum ; cotype, C/230o in Queensland 

 Museum. 



On several specimens the sides of the elytra near the base are obscurely 

 diluted with red, on one female parts of the legs are obscurely reddish; from 

 four to six apical joints of the antenna^ are more or less deeply infuscated. One 

 of the specimens was attached to a sticky seed of Pisonia hrunoniana. Li general 

 appearance the species is close to A. sohrinusy but the head of the male is 

 differently excavated, and the inter-antennary elevations differ as follows : — 



sohrinus. angustibasis. 



From directly in front. 



They appear to terminate on an The median one is posterior to the 



even line posteriorly, each being others and on a lower level. 

 separately rounded there. 



From behind. 

 The head appears to have two The head appears to have a median 



small tubercles.. liat-toi)ped convexity. 



From each side. 



The head appears to have a The head does not appear to have 



tubercle before each eye, one behind it a tubercle behind the eye and at its 

 and one at its middle, the front one middle, 

 being more conspicuous than the 

 others, which disappear when viewed 

 from a slightly lower elevation.* 



* Lea, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., 1909, fig. 6. 



