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A variety from Gympie (from W. W. Froggatt) differs 

 in being distinctly wider, with the elytra entirely dark and 

 rather more strongly punctured and the head entirely pallid. 

 Both sexes of this form are before me and the female 

 differs from the male in having the head, elytra and tarsi 

 simple. 



Another variety (from the Clarence River) has a large 

 space about the suture pallid and the basal spot on the 

 head of large size, 



Carphurus uncinatus, n. sp. {Fig. 109.) 



$ . Flavous-red ; elytra, abdomen (apex and sides of all the 

 segments pale, except the apical which is entirely pale and the sub- 

 apical which is dark at the base and sides) coxae, femora (except 

 apical third of front pair) and seven terminal joints of antennae 

 black ; tarsi more or less infuscate. Head with two fascicles (con- 

 joined at base) of black hair ; sides of prothorax in front with much 

 longer, but not much denser hair than usual. 



Head elongate ; densely punctate, base transversely strigose ; 

 rather feebly impressed between eyes. Antennae much as in the 

 preceding species. Prothorax not much longer than wide, sides 

 slightly diminishing in width to apex and more noticeably to Ijase. 

 Elytra much as in the preceding species except that the punctures 

 are slightly larger and the armature more pronounced. Basal joint 

 of front tarsi almost as long as the two following combined, with a 

 slightly curved black-rimmed inner margin. 



Length to apex of elytra Ak, of abdomen 7 mm. 



Hah. N. S. Wales : National Park {A. M. Lea). 



With the armed elytra and bifasciculate head of the 

 preceding species, but the head very distinctly punctured, 

 much less excavated between the eyes (that portion indeed 

 being more convex than concave) ; prothorax shorter, 

 elytra with denser and more rugose punctures and more 

 of the legs and abdomen black. The fascicles are also 

 somewhat different. The elytra have a shght bluish 

 gloss. 



A variety from Brisbane differs in having the apical 

 fourth of the elytra reddish-tlavous, this space being 

 narrowly connected along the suture with a narrow tri- 

 angular post-scutellar space of the same colour ; not one 

 of its ablominal segments is black, the basal ones being 

 rather lightly infuscate only. Its head has two oblique 

 ridges on each side, an acute one commencing at tlje 



