194 Mr. Arthur M. Lea's Bevision of the 



elytra immaculate and with somewhat smaller and denser 

 punctures. Its elytra, as in that species, are clothed with 

 fine whitish pubescence. Its abdominal segments are tipped 

 ■vith red. 



There are two specimens before me which I believe to 

 be males of the species ; they were beaten from Casuarina 

 close to the Parramatta River. They are rather smaller 

 than the females and have the prothorax rather shorter, 

 but in colour and in all characters except those subject to 

 sexual variation they agree exactly with the type. Be- 

 tween the eyes is a slightly elevated space, on this are 

 three tubercles, the median one of which is shaped some- 

 what as a top, of which the peg is long and directed 

 towards the base; the lateral tubercles are smaller but 

 more suddenly elevated and obliquely placed; seen from 

 behind the tubercles appear to be placed in a transverse 

 row and to be of equal size. The front of the prothorax 

 has two small foveae, separated posteriorly but conjoined in 

 front, in length they are about one-sixth of the length of 

 the prothorax itself and conjoined are heart-shaped. The 

 basal joint of the front tarsi is large and black-rimmed 

 internally. 



Hob. Queensland : Gayndah ; N. S. Wales : Wol- 

 longong, Sydney. 



Carphurus marginiventris, Fairm., Journ. Mus. GodefFr., 

 1879, p. 106. {Fig. 93.) 



I have only seen one specimen, a female, agreeing ex- 

 actly with the description of this species ; which is said to 

 have a median black spot on the head, the prothorax with 

 a longitudinal reddish vitta and the elytra with an inde- 

 terminate vitta on each and the apex infuscate. The 

 male (unknown to Fairmaire apparently) has (at least in 

 the case before me) the dark markings at the sides of the 

 prothorax much reduced in size and the median spot of 

 the head absent ; its elytra, however, are as in the female. 

 The apex of its prothorax is depressed and slightly notched 

 in the middle so that when seen directly from behind it 

 appears to have projecting points. In both cases the sides 

 of the prothorax are coarsely punctate. 



Hob. N. S. Wales : Sydney, Gosford. 



