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elevation, in front of which the surface is irregularly im- 

 pressed ; it is also rather smaller than the average male of 

 elongatus. 



Rah. Queensland : Gayndah, Peak Downs, Gympie, 

 Bundaberg ; N. S. Wales : Tweed River, Sydney, Forest 

 Reefs, Oberon, Blue Mountains, Illawarra, National Park, 

 Whitton ; Victoria : Studley Park, Chiltern. 



Carphurus apicalis, Macl., Trans. Ent. Soc, N. S. Wales, 

 II, p. 266 ; Fairm., Journ. Mus. Godeffr., 1879, p. 106. 



The type of this species is a male, and its head has a 

 large median elevation narrowed in front so as almost 

 to be pear-shaped. 



There are two specimens before me which agree exactly * 

 with the description of apicalis and were previously tabu- 

 lated by me as that species.-|- On comparing them with 

 the type, however, I find that the male differs considerably 

 in the sculpture of its head, and I have now formally 

 described it under the name of Helcogaster bacchanalis. 



Carphurus azureipennis, Mac!., Trans. Ent. Soc, N. S. 

 Wales, II, p. 266 ; Fairm., Journ. Mus. Godeffr., 1879, 

 p. 108. 



The type is'a male, and the only specimen I have seen ; 

 in appearance it is close to the type of cyaneiiMnn/is except 

 for its dark abdomen ; but the head is very different, 

 having a small subconical tubercle on each side near the 

 eye, between these is a broad moderately long feebly 

 elevated space. The description of the head in the original 

 description is misleading, as I certainly cannot regard it as 

 deeply bicanaliculate from any direction it is viewed from. 



Hah. Queensland : Gayndah. 



Carphurus pallidipennis, Macl., Trans. Ent. Soc, N. S. 

 Wales, II, p. 267 ; Fairm., Journ. Mus. Godeffr., 1879, 

 p. 105. {Fig. 92.) 



The type of this species is a female. It is close to 

 marginiventris but differs in having the head longer, the 



* Except that the prothorax by measurement is not really longer 

 than wide, although apparently so at a glance. 



t In that table the position assigned to apicalis will still hold 

 good. 



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