AtLstralian and Tasmanian Malacodcrmidac. II9 



about the apical fifth ; but the dark portions are somewhat 

 variable and are not sharply limited. 



Hob. Queensland : Mossman River, Cairns. 



Telephorus viridipennis, Macl. (Selenurus), I c, p. 

 238. 



The head is not striolate although so described ; there 

 is certainly an appearance of striolation at first sight, but 

 this is entirely due to pubescence. The space between 

 the eyes is slightly undulating but the expression " a 

 deep corrugated impression" between the eyes" is mis- 

 leading. In two specimens before me (co-types) one has 

 the prothorax immaculate and the other has it slightly 

 clouded in the middle. The elytral punctures are much 

 as in inconstans ; in fact, the most noticeable distinction 

 between the two species being the white 9th and 10th 

 joints of the antennae of inconstans* 



I have tabulated the species with Telephorus as it 

 appears to me to be out of place in Selenurus. 



Telephorus imperialis, Redt., Reise Novara, II, p. 103, 

 PL IV, fig. 1 ; Fairm., Journ. Mus. GodefF., 1879, p. 98. 



pictus, Cast., Hist. Nat., I, p. 275 (n. pr.). 



sticticus, Gemm., Col. Heft., VI, 1870, p. 120. 



(Figs. 159, 172.) 



The description of pictus is very short (the head an- 

 tennae and legs are not even mentioned) but the colours 

 exactly fit imperialis. 



In the male the head is considerably wider than the 

 prothorax, and the muzzle is flavous, much as in nohilitatics ; 

 in the females part of the 10th joint as well as the whole 

 of the 9th is sometimes whitish. The specimens before 

 me range from 5-14 mm. in length. 



JIab. Queensland : Mt. Tambourine ; N. S. Wales : 

 Sydney, Wollongong, Richmond River ; Victoria : Narra- 

 can, Gippsland. 



MOSSMANI, Macl., P. L. S., N.S.W., 1887, p. 235. 

 Hah. Queensland: Mossman River. 



* Of the numerous specimens of inconstans which I have seen 

 these joints are invariably pale ; of four specimens of viridipennis 

 they are invariably dark . 



